Coast to Coast Combat Rock Tour The Clash 1982

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.

Strummer disappears, reappears saga - Adverts - Fanzines - International articles - Memorabilia - Snippets - Tickets, passes - UK articles - US articles - Video/Audio

Strummer disappears, reappears

For full details and extensive clippings archive on Strummer's disappearance in April, UK tour cancellations and reappearance ahead of the US Coast to Coast Tour in May go here.

Advert with Tour dates

ADVERT COMBAT ROCK CONCERT TOUR DATES

Clash City Rotters

Link

Joe Mohawk

Link

Coast to Coast Tour
Topper leaves
Alex Michon clothing
Asbury 29th

82 06 11 The Ottawa Citizen Fri

Rankin Rodger Rockin the Casbah

TWIST MAGAZINE

June 1983

Rankin Rodger Rockin the Casbah

TWIST MAGAZINE

June 1983

Liverpool Echo

Saturday 82 04 10

Musician Magazine Clash interview

September 1982

Music Views and Reviews 81

Clash Review

(Combat Rock)

The year of the Clash

Rolling Stone
19 August 1982

On the brink of stardom, Britain's rock radicals are finding it difficult to sell theirpolitical ideas without selling their soles

Clash at heart of today's rock

82 06 11 Fort Lauderdale News Fri (General)

Mick interview, Fox , Falklands

82 05 29 The Atlanta Constitution Sat (Mick int, Fox, Falklands)

Hey Joe - French interview

October 81 Paris review plus
marathon

Link

Breakdown, retrospective and Farewell Joe

Covers November 1978 to November 1982
MOJO March 2003

14 pages

MOJO What are we going to do now?

From Xmas 1979 onwards including the bands demise

October 2004 / 7 pages

Clash Map of London

MOJO / Punk: the whole story

Online viewer (very good)

History of Rock Music 1982

The Clash Joe is back!

But now Toppers gone. The band account for their strange recent developments not least the fact they're in the charts. Page 62

Albums

Clash's Combat Rock lines up against Duran Duran's Rio.

Dave Gahan Depeche Mode

Page 31 "All the big punk bands are just sell-out groups anyway," says Andy. "Take The Clash, right, they go about politics 'n' everything yet they're on the most capitalist label in the world!"

"A serious rethink"
NME MAY 1 Ahead of a UK tour, Joe Strummer goes missing...

The Clash postponed the first two dates in their "Know Your Rights" UK tour this week - at Aberdeen (Monday) and Inverness (Tuesday) - because lead singer Joe Strummer has gone missing. And the remaining 18 dates in their schedule are in jeopardy, unless he shows up without further delay. Page 40

The Clash Combat Rock CBS

With macabre irony, The Clash present their would-be assassins with the first round without a shot. page 50

"A real shock" full feature, Joe Strummer going AWoL

In spite of setbacks - Joe Strummer going AWoL; topper leaving - things are going better than ever for tHE CLASH. Never mind the Falklands, Combat rock is in the top ten! Page 62

"You Jam fools", Letters comparing Jam to the Clash

page 65

After seeing The Jam at the Apollo this week, walking off stage after an hour (they did come back for an encore), it seemed to me that Paul Weller may have his principles mixed up. If The Clash can play for two-and-a-half hours at £3 a show (the Jam was £4.50) then why don't the Jam give a bit more? PAUL GORDON, Wyndway, Carrickfergus, NI (MM Apr 24)

It's quite simple, Paul. What takes Joe Strummer two-and-a-half hours to say, Weller’s got over in the first half-hour and with far more literacy and power – Paolo Hewitt

live review of cure, critises The Clash

The Cure - that's a joke. More like a symptom. Where contemporaries like The Clash play-act toy soldiers, point fingers, stick their necks out and look stupid advocating simplistic slogans, where Killing Joke share and shoulder despondency, offer no glib solutions but rally round nonetheless in blind, bitter anger, The Cure are content to whimper slightly and wallow, mirroring the meaningless mess of our live... Page 137

MOJO Meltdown, The Clash Confess

October 1999 - Feature; in the studio, records and biography - 20 pages

THE CLASH - For the first time since their acrimonious split, all four members of The Clash have agreed to set the record straight for Mojo

MOJO CLASSIC; ULTIMATE COLLECTORS EDITION

THE CLASH 146 pages

The first issue of Punk Icons unfolds the story of The Clash, from Mick Jones and Paul Simonon poaching Joe Strummer from pub rockers The 101’ers to form the group, to the chaos and destruction of their 1977 White Riot tour; and thereon from the controversial visits to America that inspired the London Calling, Sandinista! and Combat Rock albums, to the dramatic dismissal of first drummer Topper Headon in 1982, and then Jones the following year.

In between you’ll find rucks, riots, ripping tunes and a devotion to all things reggae, as The Clash earned their reputation as rock’s ultimate rebels.

UNCUT Combat Rock

September 1999 The Clash, Joe Strummer brings back the glory days (Biog, 101ers - Clash - Mesaleros) - 22 pages

THE CLASH - Sidelined for a decade by record company politics following the bitter disintegration of The Clash, Joe Strummer is back this month with a triumphant new single. In this exclusive interview, he relives his glory days as punk's defiant rebel warrior and explains why going down fighting is the only way to go.

MOJO Paul Simonon interview

June 2023 - 6 pages

Paul Simonon on joining The Clash, the tensions that broke them apart and the reunion that never was.

MOJO Revolutionary Spirit

November 2022, Strummer review

From joints in the depature lounge to mayhem on the bus, the last years of JOE STRUMMER were a chaotic, uproarious reiteration of his rock’n’roll code. Along for the ride: a maverick new band, The Mescaleros. Lurking in the backgrounds The Clash, and a momentous legacy to honour and challenge. Twenty years after his death, Pat Gilbert rounds up the gang to salute Strummer’s last stand. “He made you feel invincible,” they remember. Photograph: Birian Rasic

UNCUT Clash Reunited

October 2013 - UNCUT Clash Reunited (Retrospective) - 14 pages

The Clash... reunited Jones, Simonon and Headon look back at the band that changed so many lives.

UNCUT Ultimate Music Guide The Clash
The Last Gang in Town

9 Januury 2012 – 148 page special

Uncut presents The Clash: The Ultimate Music Guide. The complete story of the punk firebrands who revolutionised rock’n’roll. We unearth remarkable interviews, unseen for years, from the archives of NME and Melody Maker. Our peerless team of critics contribute in–depth new reviews of every Clash album. We look at Joe Strummer and Mick Jones’ careers after The Clash, dig out dozens of ultra–rare photos, and even enlist Mick to write an exclusive new introduction. The Clash: The Ultimate Music Guide – it’s a 148–page riot!

UNCUT NME Originals Clash White Riot

THE CLASH NME Originals (2003 UK 146-page magazine devoted to the Punk Gods, containing interviews, reviews and rare photographs from their early days to heady adventure at the top and beyond. Packed with information including all their greatrecords, gigs and fights, along with a tribute to the true rock rebel Joe Strummer. The cover has a only a little light storage wear, but the inner pages are near 'as new'). 146 pages

A Riot of our own Discography

85 11 09 Record Mirror

UNCUT The Clash Their Greatest Songs

03 12 00 UNCUT The Clash Their Greatest Songs - 34 pages

Support Bands for the Clash

https://www.45worlds.com/live/artist/the-clash

Joe Strummer The complicated Truth

Book: Chris Salewicz. Redemption Song review

06-10-00 WORD

The Clash Special Edition by Music Legends Magazine

85 ebook - MAGAZINE Music Legends

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Youtube videos within the ebook

Author Garry Mulholland Describes The Critical Reaction To 'Cut the Crap'.

Classic Rock Network

Critics Discuss The Repercussions Of Topper Headon’s Heroin Addiction

Classic Rock Network

The Clash Are Interviewed About The Bond’s Casino Shows In 1981

Classic Rock Network

Joe Strummer Discusses His Socialist Views In 1978

Classic Rock Network

NME; Why we love The Clash
How they changed our lives

07 05 19 NME The Clash (Career, Generic, Quotes) - 5 pages

The Clash’s 30 best songs

An all-star panel – including Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Terry Chimes – vote for their greatest cuts (from Uncut's December 2003 issue)

SongSong Fanzine

Hang Ogles
Sandinista review

March 1982

SongSong Fanzine

Combat Rock on Epic Records US advert

82 04 24

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The Clash Recording Combat Rock in NYC includes BONDS

82 05 00

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US Tour Joe Paul Mick on US Tour, Topper sacked incl London Calling BONDS

82 06 00

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U.S. News Report

82 05 00

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Lochem (broadcast in New Zealand)

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Reelin' In The Years
Mick / Joe Interview, folk song

May 1982

This very rare interview was filmed just prior to the release of "Combat Rock". It's bookended with Mick Jones and Joe Strummer playing the folk songs "Oh Shenandoah" and Woody Guthrie's "Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet" on a ukulele. We also have other iconic performances from the early punk years by the Sex Pistols, Generation X featuring Billy Idol, the Ramones, Patti Smith, New York Dolls, the Damned, X-Ray Spex, Dead Kennedys, Blondie and other great Clash footage spanning their entire career including a 40-minute set from the London Calling tour.

Reelin' In The Years Productions houses the world's largest library of music footage, containing over 20,000 hours of material covering nearly every genre from the last 60 years. We have live concerts, TV appearances, interviews, in-studio segments, b-roll and more. In addition to music we have thousands of hours of interviews with the most recognizable celebrities, comedians, politicians, athletes, artists and authors of the 20th Century. If you need footage for your film, documentary, TV show, commercial, museum exhibit or presentation, we are your one-stop shop. Visit our online database at http://www.reelinintheyears.com to explore our archive, but please email us as we are constantly adding new material to the archive. We do not supply material to fans or collectors under any circumstance, so please do not contact us if that is your intention.

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Interview Video - Top quality - 3 mins approx

all 4 band members on a railway station at Lochem Festival -
broadcast in New Zealand which causes some confusion

Asbury Park - 30 May

cable colour TV - widely circulated - 8 tracks
Spanish Bombs, Radio Clash, Garageland, Armagideon Time, Somebody Got Murdered (cut), Straight to Hell, Should I Stay or Should I Go, I Fought the Law.

Asbury Park - 30 May extras

cable colour TV - rarely seen - 4 tracks - (can't find online but circulates amongst collectors). Mostly interviews withh Mick, Don Letts, then Paul, then Kosmo. Interview with the fans outside. Cuts into ending of Know Your Rights. Clampdown. Clash City Rockers, Brand New Cadilac.