The Clash On Track (Revised edition)

Every Album, Every Song
This revised edition adds previously unpublished material from Joe Strummer’s personal notebook and Ray Lowry’s archive. It provides a concise narrative of the rise and fall of The Clash, putting each song of their prolific musical output into context, including a selection of bootlegs and rarities.

This revised edition adds previously unpublished materialfrom Joe Strummer’s personal notebook and Ray Lowry’s archive.

The Clash were an extraordinary band. Bursting out of thepunk explosion in 1977, they recorded their self-titled first album over threeweekends. It is now regarded as the quintessential punk record. Over the nextfive years, they recorded another fourteen sides of long-playing vinyl,including the platinum double LP London Calling,which was voted the best album of the 1980s and the eighth-best album of alltime by Rolling Stone magazine.Through the triple-LP Sandinista! totheir double-platinum Combat Rock plusa whole bunch of stand-alone singles and EPs, The Clash mixed both street andglobal politics with music spanning several genres, including rock, reggae,jazz, rap, calypso and rockabilly.

 It provides a concisenarrative of the rise and fall of The Clash, putting each song of theirprolific musical output into context, including a selection of bootlegs andrarities. There is also advice about how to buy The Clash’s music withoutfalling into the record company trap of repeatedly buying the same materialthrough different compilations, making this the most essential guide to themusic of this iconic band yet written.

This is the third edition of Nick’s book. Neither a trainedwriter nor a music critic, he is a lifelong Clash fan with a passion for theirmusic and the punk ethic of ‘Do It Yourself ’. He was born and grew up in innerLondon and has spent his life taking the fight to the enemy. Nick is now afamily man who spends his time playing music and planting trees in the Forestof Dean, UK.

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