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Station

The Clash

1976 to 1986 · on Punk

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Active years

192019401960198020002020

The journey

1975198019851990Punk1979
  1. 1979Punk · London Calling
  2. 1979London Calling · Album
  3. 1980Sandinista! · Album
  4. 1981Seventeen nights at Bond's, New York · Performance
  5. 1982Combat Rock · Album
  6. 1982Opening for the Who at Shea Stadium · Performance
  7. 1983The US Festival · Performance
  8. 1983Mick Jones sacked · Moment
  9. 1986The end · Moment

1 platform, 8 moments and landmarks along the way. Lines the journey does not ride are dimmed, as they are on the map while a journey plays.

Platform

  1. Punk1979 to 1986

    London Calling

    The self-titled debut (1977) is first-wave punk; London Calling (1979) opened punk out to reggae, rockabilly and soul and is the station's defining year. Combat Rock (1982) took them into American stadiums, and the band fell apart within four years of it.

    Key album: London Calling, 1979

    1. 1979Album

      London Calling

      A double album released in December 1979 for the price of a single one: punk, reggae, rockabilly, ska and soul on one record.

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      Source: Wikipedia, London Calling (opens in a new tab)

    2. 1980Album

      Sandinista!

      A triple album in December 1980, 36 songs, dub and rap among them, again sold at the band's insistence for less than it cost.

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      Source: Wikipedia, Sandinista! (opens in a new tab)

    3. 1981Performance

      Seventeen nights at Bond's, New York

      A booked week at Bond's International Casino in May and June 1981 was oversold; the band played extra shows until every ticket holder had seen them.

      Source: Wikipedia, The Clash (opens in a new tab)

    4. 1982Album

      Combat Rock

      Released in May 1982 with "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go": the band's biggest seller, and the last with the classic line-up.

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      Source: Wikipedia, Combat Rock (opens in a new tab)

    5. 1982Performance

      Opening for the Who at Shea Stadium

      October 1982: the punk band from the Westway playing the stadium the Beatles had opened for rock in 1965.

      Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Clash (opens in a new tab)

    6. 1983Performance

      The US Festival

      28 May 1983, in front of some 140,000 people in California, for a fee of half a million dollars that Joe Strummer argued about on stage; the last show with Mick Jones.

      Source: Wikipedia, US Festival (opens in a new tab)

    7. 1983Moment

      Mick Jones sacked

      Strummer and Paul Simonon dismissed Jones in September 1983; he formed Big Audio Dynamite, and the Clash carried on without its other songwriter.

      Source: Wikipedia, The Clash (opens in a new tab)

    8. 1986Moment

      The end

      Cut the Crap (1985) was disowned by its own singer; Strummer wound the band up in early 1986.

      Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Clash (opens in a new tab)

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Clash (opens in a new tab)

Line-ups

The Clash has a line-up of its own: The Clash, 1976 to 1986, every member and spell as a line diagram.

Connections

Influenced bySex Pistols

The line

Punk (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Clash (opens in a new tab)
  2. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

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The Metro Map of Music, ‘The Clash: station’, /stations/the-clash.