The Clash Take the Fifth 1979

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.

The Clash Still Drawing Big U.S. Audiences

80 04 06 The Lexington Herald Sun

LondCall, Take the Fifth, NYC, Mick backstage

CLASH INTERVIEW

The Story So Far (issue 3)

The Bakers Tour Diary (excert)

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Passes

Poster

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Unknown - Clash Extension

15 August 1979

The Clash who started a lengthy American Tour last week are due to tour Britain in November to tie in with the release of their new album. Tha band's American Tour, which included the Monterey Festival last week

Do these men look like Dolly Parton Impersonators

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Boston Rock subway news

November 1979

Photos: Jenny Lens

Clash Photographer 1979-1981
I shot the Clash from February 1979 to June 1980. I didn’t bring my camera to the Sausalito Swap Meet, February 3, and ran into them and Johnny Green. I said hello, but too shy to tell them who I was or inquire about photo passes. Their debut California gigs were discussed in San Francisco at the Ramada Inn press conference

The Clash Play Revolution Rock

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Chris Salewicz, Trouser Press, March 1980
IT'S FOUR days before Christmas. A dark, early evening damp with snow and rain. Immediately south of the Thames, in the inappropriately genteel Victorians... end of Tour chaos in LA.

NY Rocker flyer

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Ray Lowry

Pass and ticket

Passes

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The Clash Turn Pro (Sort Of)

Peter Silverton, Sounds, 29 September 1979

TUESDAY LUNCHTIME: Cleveland Airport. With a couple of hours to kill before my one-stop-only flight to Minneapolis and the first date on the Clash’s second American tour (bewilderingly named ‘The clash Take The Fifth’), I dragged out the Corona Calypso, balanced it sloppily on a tubular chrome ashtray (everything’s bigger and shinier at Cleveland Airport) and started attacking the keys. Unfortunately, this attracted the attention of a perambulating mahogany tree. ... more

NME Clash USA'79 - Final Curtain

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NME - Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry Pt1

Mee The Clash

22 Sept 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes

NME - Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry Pt2

The shape I'm In

6 Oct 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes

NME - Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry Pt3

Have you heard the news

13 Oct 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes

NME - Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry Pt3

Have you heard the news, theres good rocking ronight

13 Oct 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes

NME cover only – inside pages WANTED

Thrills NME

3 November-1979

NME - Fastest gang in the West part 1 & 2

13th October (PDF pt1), and 20th October (PDF pt2)

The Last Gang in The West Leaves Town (HTML)

text version

NME 13 & 20 Oct Paul Morley
Paul Morley of the NME travels on the tour bus from Detroit on the 17th through to New York on the 21st interviewing and following the band.
DETAILS: The Scene. The Clash on tour of America. There's a glamorous image, with a confident, crusading edge to it. The Clash: a lot of hope and responsibility there. America: it still means a lot. Clash's current six week coast to coast tip to toe tour of the United States Of America is their first major assault.