The band continued expanding into funk and even new wave, but their career spun out quickly with a lineup change and an ...

Blues is the root of all rock and roll music, but the 1970s saw artists like Joe Strummer and The Clash establish a bold, abrasive new sound known as punk rock.

He met fellow Clash co-founder Mick Jones in the mid-1970s and formed an early version of that band; he and manager ... could causes turntable styluses to jump from the vibrations.

The Clash’s name is as much a noble statement as it is the name of one of the most famous rock bands in history. The term represents the political tensions taking place in the 1970s in the band ...

In other The Clash news, last November it was announced that the band’s guitarist Keith Levene had died aged 65. “It is with great sadness I report that my close friend and legendary Public ...

Whenever anyone references The Clash — the incendiary punk rock band that exploded onto the London scene in 1977 and became huge everywhere a few years later with London Calling and Combat Rock ...

He added: “As well as helping to make PiL the most important band of the age, Keith also founded the Clash with Mick Jones and had a major influence on their early sound. “So much of what we ...