The Clash Ultimate Review | Music Documentary | Mick Jones | Joe Strummer | Paul Simonon | Don Letts
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Featuring rare footage from The Punk Rock Movie and from Mick Jones' last gig, this critical review dives into the music that changed a generation.
Drawing on extensive rare footage, this is the ultimate critical review of the music of The Clash. Veteran filmmaker Don Letts heads a team of leading critics, reviewers, and Clash insiders in this powerful review of the music that changed a generation. Includes rare film from The Punk Rock Movie and the 1983 US Festival, Mick Jones’ last gig with The Clash.
Performance clips include: Rock The Casbah, Should I Stay or Should I Go, White Riot, Police and Thieves, Garageland, Tommy Gun, London Calling, Guns of Brixton, The Magnificent Seven, I Fought The Law, Clash City Rockers, Know Your Rights and many more!
The Clash was an English rock band formed in London in 1976 that were key players in the original wave of British punk rock. Billed as "The Only Band That Matters", they also contributed to the post-punk and new-wave movements that emerged in the wake of punk and employed elements of a variety of genres including reggae, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Nicky "Topper" Headon.
Headon left the group in 1982 due to internal friction surrounding his increasing heroin addiction. Further internal friction led to Jones' departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986. The Clash achieved critical and commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their self-titled debut album, The Clash (1977) and their second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). Their experimental third album, London Calling, released in the UK in December 1979, earned them popularity in the United States when it was released there the following month. A decade later, Rolling Stone named it the best album of the 1980s. Following continued musical experimentation on their fourth album, Sandinista! (1980), the band reached new heights of success with the release of Combat Rock (1982), which spawned the US top 10 hit "Rock the Casbah", helping the album to achieve a 2× Platinum certification there. A final album, Cut the Crap, was released in 1985 with a new lineup, and a few weeks later, the band broke up.
In January 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer, the band-including original drummer Terry Chimes-were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash number 28 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
Director: Helen Murrell
Stars: Don Letts, John Robb, Pat Gilbert
Classic lineup (1977-1982
Joe Strummer - lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar (1976-1986; died 2002)
Mick Jones - lead guitar, lead and backing vocals (1976-1983)
Paul Simonon - bass guitar, backing and lead vocals (1976-1986)
Nicky "Topper" Headon - drums, percussion (1977-1982)
Other members
Terry Chimes - drums (1976, 1977, 1982-83)
Rob Harper - drums (1976-77)
Pete Howard - drums (1983-86)
Keith Levene - guitar (1976; died 2022)
Nick Sheppard - lead guitar, backing and lead vocals (1983-86)
Vince White - rhythm guitar (1983-86)
Discography:
The Clash (1977)
Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)
London Calling (1979)
Sandinista! (1980)
Combat Rock (1982)
Cut the Crap (1985)
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My favourite band and definitely the ultimate band for me 👍♥️👍
Don Letts always elevates a documentary a notch or two.
First album I ever bought...took weeks on my paper route... London Calling!!! I was 11 or 12
I was very lucky to see them 5 times , a fantastic live band . In fact they where the only band that mattered
The clash ! The best band ever !!
is John Robb doing anythig other than being in different documentaries?
Someone forgot to edit the disclaimer about original recordings as it went along. That or 1979 was a busy fucking year.
Big strummer fan, love the clash! I really enjoy the mescaleros! Good gig hear, if you mute/ skip the adverts!
CLASH & JAM= Revolution Punks all inspired by Johnny. Too bad there weren't a lot lot more!!!
Who are these guys....I recognize Don, but the rest of these guys don't really have anything more than personal opinions. Great archival content .
Safe European home is my shit since 1988
Nothing New here...... Like Trousers, Like Brain. This is Old
If you have a host, shouldn't he like the band? This guy doesn't like the Clash
@petermgruhn
8 ай бұрын
Oh, interesting. I've only just started. I'll watch out for that....
Ad hominem ,word salad.
What is Pat Gilbert going on about? Ah, he was 11 years old at the time. He's going on about bits he might remember from received fantasies of the era. God... you'd think they could air brush out the gogo dancer. lol. smfh. Here's Pat Gilbert again "The Clash" was the first punk album. "Damned Damned Damned" being released while "The Clash" was actively being recorded, notwithstanding. Yeah, it was just the "Police and Thieves" cover that did it. Ask Don about that. LOL. And it's not just that Gilbert is talking out his collection of old fanzines, it's that THIS production uses him as an authoritative source. You know what really cemented The Clash's status as -the- punk band? Being The Clash. Making the music they did. "They made a song whining about CBS. CBS put it out. CBS promoted it. They had their first top 30 hit." CBS turned The Clash's rebellion into money. For them. Sooo... 1) What are they complaining about? 2) They sold out. BOC, first album made in 1971. The year "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" takes place. "We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than fire years later [1971] you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." Just sayin'. Oh, also "hippie era heavy metal". LOL, wikipedia article on Sandy Pearlman : "He was described as the "Hunter Thompson of rock". Pealman had just produced The Dictators "Go Girl Crazy!", "It was released in March 1975 and is considered one of the first examples of punk rock." But still this "documentary" wants us to think of the guy who produced "one of the first examples of punk rock" as some kind of hippie Grateful Dead associate. Fawning, Gilbert explains, "he liked not paying people to teach them a lesson." Other people would frame this with their noses well away from posteriors as "he was kind of a dick". What I always liked about punk purists is the inconvenient mix of "do it yourself" and "not sounding authentically punk enough for my tastes." There is, of course, the obvious "not enough of a conformist rebel" hypocrisy, but let's focus instead on the little itty bitty word, "it". Do IT yourself. Do what? Form a band. Make music. Become a musician. Practice. Get better. Explore music. Find out what it can do. Find out what you can do. MAKE yourself. Lift yourself up by your own bootstraps to become that to which you aspire : A rock and roll musician. Do what yourself? Make a lot of unlistenable caterwaulings and one chord screeches? Bullshit. Do "Become a musician" yourself. And that's what The Clash did. Did that make them stop being punk? Did it change what punk is? Was Eazy not real hiphop because he DID NOT look like a member of The Furious Five or sound like "Rapper's Delight"? Look, let's not have to invoke Stevo here, but feh. Are they going to notice that they started the doc' with "I'm So Bored With the USA"? ... Savaging the USA. Tie the thread together? Make an observation? Follow the bloody rabbit? Nah. Wait, half an hour on "The Clash" and two minutes on "London Calling"? No mention of how "London Calling" actually gets kinda tired? How it doesn't really have two disks worth of material? Wait, "Sandinista" is merely "self-indulgent"? I mean, not that it isn't, but it's also experimental. I like to think of it as like the white album. Oo, a brief nod to experiment. "Good on y'." Okay, Gilbert is talking again. "It's a calypso album." He means "there are some calypso bits on it". Dude doesn't know what words mea... No, I doubt that. I think his ideas are crap. I think the stuff that comes out of his mouth is an accurate reflection of what's going... Fuck this shit. I'ma go listen to "Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding." SKIP