The Clash Hamburg Show's Prompting An Angry Strummer To Hit One Of Them In The Head With His Guitar

Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. From the outset, the band was more musically adventurous expanding its hard rock & roll with reggae, dub and rockabilly among other roots music, Furthermore they were blessed with two exceptional songwriters in Joe Strummer and Mick Jones each with a distinctive voice and style. The Clash copped heavily from classic outlaw imagery, positioning themselves as rebels with a cause, As a result they won a passionately devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. While they became rock & roll heroes in the UK, second only to the Jam in terms of popularity, it took the Clash several years to break into the American market and when they finally did in 1982 they imploded several months later. Though the Clash never became the superstars they always threatened to become, they restored passion and protest to rock & roll, For a while, they really did seem like the only band that mattered. however, here are the facts about the clash.
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