![]() ![]() Reading We Are the Clash, it’s clear that in the early to mid-80s Joe Strummer was a man in crisis. Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki’s We Are the Clash follows the turbulent journey of this Clash Mark 2, documenting ‘Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band that Mattered’. Was The Clash really The Clash without Mick Jones? Or, for that matter, without drummer Topper Headon, who had been fired the year before? But The Clash carried on. For a while, the fear that he could be right lingered, spurred by what sometime Clash manager and producer Kosmo Vinyl called ‘John-Paul-George-Ringo Syndrome’. When Mick Jones was unceremoniously booted out of The Clash in September of 1983 (and we mean unceremonious – the meeting that resulted in his sacking was said to last less than 15 minutes), he said that firing him was ‘the biggest mistake in rock and roll history’. ![]()
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