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

Link

Topper's first gig

The Clash | Facebook

"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

Link

Clash Offer - Free EP

NME - Advert, date / source unknown

Link

White Riot: Black Lives Matter, 70s Punk Style

Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Websters house in 1977

The Face Rock Against Racism was the pioneering UK organisation that used music to take on the fascists of the National Front in the face of violence and establishment cowardice. A new documentary tells its story. Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Websters house in 1977. : r/punk Rock Against Racism: Fighting for Civil Rights in the UK | Blind More anti-fascist history; Hyde 1977 | lives; running The Clash NF Martin Webster protest - Google Search

White Riot: Black Lives Matter, '70s Punk Style - The Face

Rock Against Racism was the pioneering UK organisation that used music to take on the fascists of the National Front in the face of violence and establishment cowardice. A new documentary tells its story.

Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Webster's house in 1977. : r/punk
Rock Against Racism: Fighting for Civil Rights in the UK | Blind
More anti-fascist history; Hyde 1977 | lives; running
The Clash NF Martin Webster protest - Google Search

Link

Advert for Clash clothing

Link

Venues, dates

'The Clash tilt for the Top'

Melody Maker - 23 April 1977

Link

Very low res - don't have a copy

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)

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: Band of the Year

Sounds - 1 Jan 1977 - front cover, full article wanted

Link

RECORD MIRROR: A STORM IS COMING

9 April 1977

Link

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 th 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.

Link

Punk Rock mag cover only

wanted full article

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)

Feature Magazines - all

Below are retropective articles in magazines. For all a full comprehensive list of magazines, for example articles on a tour, or an album or specific feature go here.

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

Link

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)

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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