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Tom Robinson thinks of it as “the punk Woodstock”. It was the moment punk turned popular, and people’s band The Clash became real rock stars
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submitted by Nick Mar 9th 2015 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Before Radiohead released The Bends in 1995 and kicked off an unimpeachable run, there was 1993’s Pablo Honey. For a time, I ranked Pablo Honey alongside stuff like the Clash’s Cut The Crap: embarrassments by bands that were otherwise unassailable, the kind of albums the band and fans alike tried to willfully write out of [&a...
By any reasonable metric, the Clash are one of the five best bands in British history. (The others, if you’re keeping score at home, are the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pulp, and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.) In honor of their history, the BBC has put together a new documentary called The Clash: New Year’s Day &#821...
Band's performance marked the explosion of punk


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