Pre White Riot, early 1977, articles

Here is a list of known articles around the time of the tour. If you know of anything that is missing please do let us know.

Topper joins

Snippets

UK articles / magazines

Fanzines

Audio / Video

1977

Sources

Internet Archive source
British Newspaper Archive source
Newspaper.com source
Getty images source
UK Music Magazines, Record Mirror, Sounds, NME, Melody Maker, source and flckr
Rock Archive (photos) source
Twitter NME, SOUNDS, Record Mirror, Melody Maker
Rocks Back Pages (paywall)
Still unusual fanzine colection source

Clash new drummer, album, tidbits

Melody Maker - 30 April 1977

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Topper's first gig

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"I first played the drums when I was thirteen. I was working at the butchers, cleaning up and I saved the money to buy a kit for Â£30" - Topper Headon, 1977

Mick meets Topper at Kinks gig

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Clash Offer - Free EP

NME - Advert, date / source unknown

Link

Advert for Clash clothing

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Alex Michon clobber

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Joe Swinford - The Clash missed an opportunity back in the day to make those Alex Michon threads commercially available. BOY sold the zip strides, but they were very poorly made, and didn't last long.Â

I know Bernie had Upstarts, and made attempts to sell a few tees via the music press ads, but they should have "done a Beatles," and opened an exclusive Clash store. Look at the stuff Malcolm & Vivienne shifted connected to the Pistols!

I know there's a few variations of this gear doing the rounds these days,, but apart from a few great tees, it's pretty tacky stuff.

Obviously, I'm not going to wear that stuff in my mid 60s! I'd resemble someone in a Clash fancy dress parade.

BOY, Kensington Market, Beaufort Market, Seditionaries (very expensive) in London, and Paradise Garage in Bristol were my go to stores back in the late 70s and early 80s. Unfortunately, I no l Ionger own ANY of the gear I bought back then. We never thought about keeping stuff. Wear it til it fell apart!Â

You guys have any memories of those stores and that clobber?

Advert, t-shirts

Poster

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Hey pop pickers - Melody Maker tips Clash for the big time

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Melody Maker, FEBRUARY 5, 1977, 15p weekly

Clash sign for big-time!

CLASH, one of Britain's top three punk rock bands, this week signed with the giant recording company, CBS. The band, formed only six months ago, are now one of the most important groups on the punk rock circuit, rivalling the popularity of the Sex Pistols and the Damned.

Clash were formed by Joe Strummer, pre-viously the guitarist and lead singer with 101'ers. The rest of the line-up is Paul Simenon (bass), Mick Jones (guitar) and Terry Chimes (drums).

CBS commented this week: "This is tremendously exciting news. They should be going into the studio in the near future."

Clash, as reported in the Melody Maker last month, recently spent two weeks in London studios working on tracks for an album.

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'The Clash tilt for the Top', Clash personality

Melody Maker - 23 April 1977 - 6 pages

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'The Clash tilt for the Top', Clash personality

Melody Maker - 23 April 1977 - 6 pages

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Greatness from Garageland

Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, February 1978

UNANNOUNCED, TO SAY the least, a kid in boots, suspenders and short-cropped hair clambers through the photographers' pit and up onto the stage of London's Rainbow Theatre. Benignly ignored by band, stage crew and security alike...

Link

Original article wanted

The Clash: Konkrete Klockwork

Report and Interview
by Kris Needs
ZigZag: April 1977

(text version) or (PDF version 1) or (PDF version 2)

AT THE MOMENT there isn't a group in the New Wave that comes within spitting distance of The Clash, live or on record. Within a year ...

The Clash: "Our pick for '77"

Sounds - 1 January 1977 - front cover only.

WANTED ****

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RECORD MIRROR: A STORM IS COMING

9 April 1977

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Book: "The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion,' 1977

The Clash - Caroline Coon - 26th March 1977

Text version or Online

WHEN I FIRST interviewed the Clash in their barrack like studio in Chalk Farm, they had yet to sign a record contract, although they were already one of the punk scene's favourite bands.

This is sveral articles (Such as 'Down out and Proud', at the ICA) collated for her book

Punk Rules OK / The Song of the anti-hero / Baggy to the knees

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 13 September 1977

- Lengthy piece about punk clothes, mentions Tiffany's ban, Rainbow riot and Lanchester non payment.

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Punk Rock mag cover only

WANTED **** full article

1977 â€œPunk Zineâ€ piece folds out into a poster of The Clash - 6 pages

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Weekend punks - following the Clash 1977 and 1978

16 05 05

Archived PDF

MOJO The Clash From Westway to Broadway

August 1994 (Bonds, US general), JS interview - 20 pages

The History of Rock 1977

Online Editon

Albums First offering for the Clash, page 68

Letters The Clash write, page 91

FEATURE: In Belfast, the Clash, "Desolation and chaos", 6 pages, page 118

FEATURE: NME April 2nd: We ain't l ashamed to fight" The Clash, 6 pages, page 44

Letters, The Clash were right, page 90

Clash Map of London

MOJO / Punk: the whole story

Online viewer (very good)

Retropective magazine features, audio, video

For a full catalogies of retropective articles in magazines, interviews and features on TV and radio go here.

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MoreOn fanzine

issue #3 (1977)

Short interview. Mentions Roxy and drummers and CBS

Recording & Roxy gig

Interview - photos - Link

Tomorrow The World Fanzine from March 77

Link

Tomorrow The World Fanzine from March 77

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Previously unseen footage of the Clash on New Years day, 1977

Dangerous Minds

Online or archived PDF

BBC4: The Clash - Documentary 2015 - Roxy New Years Day

See also edited montage recreating '1977'

NME Article

Edited version

Edited version of Julian Temple's film on The Clash, originally shown on BBC4. All other footage removed, just The Clash.

Harlesden Roxy (Punk Rock Movie)

White Riot - filmed by Don Letts

Beaconsfield Studios

Official release - Soundsystem Box Set DVD

Studio - Dunstable,
White Riot Interview 7:10
Promo and interviews with Tony Parsons
1977 1:87
White Riot 1:48
Londons Burning 2:05

Line Up: Joe Strummer - vocals, guitar, Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, Paul Simonon - bass, vocals, Topper Headon - drums. Source - Return of Last Gang in Town (p. 238), Complete Clash (for exact date)

Don Letts Super 8 Medley 11:40

Official release on Sony Soundsystem Boxset

White Riot 1:52 (Harlesden, 3 Mar 1977)
Janie Jones 1:73 (unknown)
City of the Dead 2:04 (unknown)
Clash City Rockers 2:15 (unknown)
White Man in Hammersmith Palais 2:53 (unknown)
1977 1:41 (The Rainbow, 9 May 1977)

Don Letts footage has recenty been released. A good listing of the contents of the The Clash's Sound System box set can be found here.

BFI Library

The origial footgage can be found at the British BFI Insititue archive:

The Clash Don Lett's Super 8 Medley

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1977 (from Punk Rock Movie old VHS - not box set)

White Riot

Video

The Punk Rock Movie is a 1978 British documentary directed by Don Letts

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Getty Images

219 stock photos and high resolution images about The Clash 1977

The Clash's Roadies

Display at The Clash musuem.

Joe Strummer on John Lennon

"Was Joe Strummer really critical on John Lennon?"

According to Bob Gruen, at a show in England, after the Clash performed "1977", Joe proclaimed, "But John Lennon Rules!" (after singing "no Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones") And Gruen claims that there is similarity between what both of the two had done.Â

What Joe was critical about was rather Paul McCartney. And some insist that Joe was a huge Lennon fan.Â

"But John Lennon Rules OK?"

(from my book)

"Positive light to the darkness of the Sex Pistols, the Clash released an incendiary eponymously titled first album in 1977, the year of punk, a Top Ten hit. With Strummer at the helm, the group toured incessantly: at a show that year at the University of Leeds, he delivered the customary diatribe of the times: 'No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stonesâ€¦ But John Lennon rules, OK?' He barked, revealing a principal influence and hero of his ownâ€¦"

(from Chris Salewicz's book, "Redemption Song: the definitive biography of Joe Strummer")

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*photograph: by Ray Stevenson (1977)

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