The Clash

PARIS, FRANCE:  Picture dated 1978 of British punk rockers from the band The Clash, Joe Strummer (R), Mick Jones (C) and Paul Simonon. Joe Strummer died on Sunday 22 December 2002, said a spokesman of his record company Epitaph 23 December 2002.    AFP PH

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The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. From the outset, the band was more musically adventurous, expanding its hard rock & roll with reggae, dub, and {\rockabilly... Read More