MOJO The Clash From Westway to Broadway
August 1994 (Bonds, US general), JS interview - 20 pages
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Breakdown, retrospective and Farewell Joe
Covers November 1978 to November 1982
MOJO March 2003
14 pages
Needs, Kris. “Aces & Eights.” Vive Le Rock!, no. 31, 2015, pp. 46–53.
The Clash — Aces & Eights
— 1978 is framed as The Clash’s most decisive year: the stormy On Parole UK tour, writing/recording of Give ’Em Enough Rope with producer Sandy Pearlman, and the first push toward the US. Sessions span Marquee Studios and Basing Street; Jamaica yields Safe European Home and Drug Stabbing Time. Flashpoints include the air-rifle “Guns on the Roof” incident and the Victoria Park anti-racism rally. Openers Suicide and The Coventry Automatics (later The Specials) shape the bill; set lists road-test Tommy Gun, English Civil War, and Stay Free. A sidebar Q&A, “Rude Boy Can’t Fail,” has Ray Gange recalling tour chaos, celebrity cameos, and label gatecrashing. — Stories & authors
– “Aces & Eights” — Kris Needs; “Rude Boy Can’t Fail” (Q&A) — Ray Gange interview feature within the same spread.
— Victoria Park (Rock Against Racism/ANL, Hackney); Friars Aylesbury (Maxwell Hall); Dunstable Queensway Hall; Birmingham Barbarella’s; Manchester Elizabethan Ballroom (Belle Vue); Glasgow Apollo; Dunfermline Kinema; tour warm-up at Manticore, Fulham.
History of Rock 1978
Rock Against Racism show after an Anti-Nazi League march. 3 pages. Page 70
"We wanted to finish rock 'n' roll' Subway Sect incl. Clash page 8
He also told us that he was sure that The Clash would split within the next month."Strummer and Mick Jones hate each other. They don't speak to each other. They'll never play together again." Damned interview page 46
Interview with Keith Levene/Public Image. Liar was a song about him page 86
Letters Page 93
Mods and Rockers clash at Brighton page 111
15 November Just another battle 8 page feature page 132
Clash Map of London
MOJO / Punk: the whole story
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