The Clash Live - Adelaide - Thebarton Town Hall, Australia - Monday 22nd February 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.

Articles Magazines - Dates - Fanzines - International Articles - Joe Goes Missing - Passes - Posters - Snippets - Audio/Video - Photos Joe running London marathon

All the clipping in one stream below | or PDF.

Joe disapears
Joe Still missing
Strummer found
Topper sacked

Strummer vanishes to prove he's alive

82 06 20 The Daily Register Sun

Singer is still among the missing

82 05 28 Poughkeepsie Journal Fri (Joe missing)

Strummer goes astray

April Joe disapears

unknown date / source

Record Mirror, Strummer missing

82 05 00

CLIPPINGS Joe missing dates

unknown date / source

Clash blow last dates

Joe Goes Missing

unknown date / source

Clash mystery: Joe Goes AWOL

unknown date / source

Running silent, runnning deep

Melody Maker – 1 May 1982

At the time of writing

unknown date / source

Various Tour dates, letter to NME

Link

Record Mirror Clash Tour crumbles

82 05 00

Clash Dream On – Sounds

Bring me the guitar of Joseph Strummer,
Clash blow last dates,
Still no Joe show

unknown date / source

Clash Tour Crumbles.
Riddle of wild man of Clash,
Strummer goes astray

unknown date / source

Clash postpone five more dates, Still Joe no show

NME - Joes Strummer goes AWOL & The Clash postpone gigs. "We've tried everything to find him", says Topper. From the NME, May 82

Strummer in the City

unknown date / source

Joe goes missing

Clash postpone first dates – and rest of UK Tour in jeopardy

unknown date / source

Know Your rights UK Tour dates

unknown date / source

CLIPPINGS Joe missing dates

unknown date / source

Running silent, runnning deep

Melody Maker – 1 May 1982

Why Joe did a runner

82 07 17 Newcastle Evening Chronicle Saturday (Missing CombR Newcas)

Missing Clash drummer resurfaces

82 06 18 Record Journal Fri (Missing Asbury)

Clash players drop out to keep from crashing

82 06 18 Fort Lauderdale News Fri (Topper)

Strummer sighted in

Interview Doubt & Desperation

Record Mirror
24 July 1982

Clash blow last two dates

unknown date / source

The Clash
Penny Smith ticket reschedule

unknown date / source

Strummer in the City

unknown date / source

Strummer stays hidden
Clash dream on
Strummer found ... but Topper quits
Joe's back – but Topper quits
Clash add Chimes to line-up
Strummer traced
Chimes back

unknown date / source

Record Mirror Strummer traced

1982-05-22

Joe Disapear US Tour June 82

unknown date / source

Joe's disappearance

UNCUT Magazine
published 2003

Strummer found ... Topper Quits

82 05 29 Record Mirror Strummer found Topper Quits

Topper has left the band, dates cancelled

82 06 13 The Times Tribune Sun (Topper, missing)

All square

82 06 02 Aberdeen Evening Express Wednesday (Topp leaving)

Joe's back – but Topper quits

unknown date / source

alternate link

Now Topper Quits

More upheavels in the Clash

unknown date / source

Ultimate Classic Rock: Clash fire Topper Headeon

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-clash-fire-topper-headon/

The Clash were mere days away from releasing Combat Rock when drummer Topper Headon was unceremoniously fired. Fittingly, he appeared to be pained and out of focus on the subsequent album cover.

Bandleader Joe Strummer never really forgave himself, though the formerly heroin-addicted Headon has consistently agreed with the decision.

"Joe went to his grave blaming himself for the Clash breaking up – but he had no choice," Headon told Uncut in 2007, just three years after finally kicking the habit. "When you're an addict, you lie all the time. I didn't give a fuck about anyone else. He didn't have a lot of choice, but he was a great frien ever since.

The Clash originally got together in 1976, during punk's messy and violent early days. Original drummer Terry Chimes quickly had enough of the chaotic scene, reportedly quitting after a bottle was smashed on his hi-hat during a show. The auditions to replace him were grueling.

Headon, who'd been in an earlier band with the Clash's Mick Jones, was the 207th and final person to try out. Born in Bromley, he was the child of educators but started in a decidedly different field of work. "I first played drums when I was 13," Headon told Time Out in 1978. "I was working at the butcher's, cleaning up, and I saved the money to buy a kit for £30."

He had a memorable year-and-a-half-long tenure with a prog group that opened for Supertramp. Those experiences, along with his time alongside Jones in London SS, convinced Headon that he'd been right to hand in his meat cleaver. "We hit it off straight away," Headon said of Jones in a 2018 talk with Kent Online. "I then went on a tour with an American soul band, and he formed the Clash."

Hits Magazine Topper leaves etc...

5 August 1982

Record Mirror Clash Club

82 07 10

Record Mirror Advert

82 07 00

Tour dates Advert

Know Rights to miss Clash Tour

Link or Link 2

Tour advert with original dates

Link / with the original dates / or Link 2

Clash Club

Advert Tour dates

Casbah Club advert dates

unknown date / source

Clash Kid Creole set major tours dates

unknown date / source

Posters

Tour poster

Poster

SOUNDS

82 07 11 Photo only

Hey! Joe!
French magazine interview

Punk Magazine

Link

July 1982? Includes interview, 5 pages

Record Mirror Doubt and Desperation on the Edge of Town

Interview, 24 July 1982 Record Mirror

Page 19 and Cover

Other past scans

24 July 1982 and 24 July 1982

UNCUT Magazine, Joes disappearance

2003

Joe politics West coast

June 1982

SOUNDS interview

18 July 1982

Hits Magazine Topper leaves etc...

5 August 1982

Stations of The Clash

Link

Paul Tickell talks to Don Letts about Radio Clash, and the peoblme of making videos that are more than just images

Clash's Magnificent 19
Reading The Clash's rights

Record Mirror?

Sounds, The Punk Debate, Punk v Oi!

82 12 25 The Archives, Winston Smith

25th December 1982 - "Sounds", UK music paper

OOR Magazine (German)

5 May 1982

Rock Magazine (French)

May 1982

BE Magazine (French)

November 1982
Covers Aylesbury gig and tour

Swedish 82 article on the Brixton gigs

Heatwave Fanzine

English translation

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)

Eccentric Sleeve Notes fanzine, issue #4 (1983)

Includes mention of Newcastle City Hall

What rot on rock, Liverpool Echo letters

82 09 07 Tuesday (Anti punk letter)

Clash Attack

82 07 22 Nottingham Recorder Thu - or PDF

Clashic Cuts

82 07 17 Record Mirror Clashic Cuts

"Bollocks"

82 07 17 Record Mirror Message to CBS

Five Don Letts films being screened

82 07 14 The Standard Wed

Joe does the London Marathon

SMASH HITS

Punks not a shade on the Stones!

Illustrated-London-News---Tuesday-01-June-1982-WEB

Record Mirror Fun Boy Three interview

82 07 31

A Clash Mum writes

82 08 14 Record Mirror

Passes

Pass

Tour pass

Video and audio footage

from the tour and the period including radio interviews.

Radio - Joe Strummer Interviewed by Lisa Robinson around June 1982
BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen Joe interviewed after being found
BBC Radio 1 Joe before his disapearance + interview- with the band after
BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen 1982
BBC Radio 1 Rock On Mick interview on Sandinista & the realese of Combat Rock
BBC Radio 1 Interview with Kid Jensen May 1982
BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen, Mick, Paul & Kosmo, Joe disappearing 2 May
BBC Radio 1 Interview with the band, -part 2 Mick, Combat Rock Interview

Joe Strummer Interviewed by Lisa Robinson

around June 1982

BBC R1 Kid Jensen Joe interviewed after being found

BBC Radio 1 Joe before his disapearance

+ interview- with the band after including BAD interview

BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen 1982

BBC Radio 1 Rock On Mick interview

on Sandinista & the realese of Combat Rock

BBC Radio 1 Interview with Kid Jensen May 1982

BBC Radio 1 Interview with Kid Jensen

Mick, Paul & Kosmo talking about Joe Strummer disappearing 2 May1982

BBC Radio 1 Interview with the band,

-part 2 Mick, Combat Rock Interview

Joe running the London marathon

The 1982 London Marathon was the second running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 9 May. wikipedia

Joe Strummer of The Clash at the 1983 London Marathon (Photo by Steve Rapport/Getty Images)

Newrummer sought,
Joe and the London marathon

83 05 20 The Daily Sentinel Fri and
83 05 20 The Olympian Fri (marathon)
83 05 20 Wichita Falls Times Fri
83 05 21 The Windsor Star Sat (marathon)
83 05 22 The Daily Register Sun (marathon)
83 05 27 Fort Lauderdale News Fri (marathon)
83 05 29 The Dispatch Sun (Marathon)