We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered [Paperback]

The Clash's final chapter, after guitarist Mick Jones' 1983 departure, has largely been forgotten--until this book, in which authors Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki argue that the punk pioneers were still creating vital music to the very end.
--Rolling Stone, an RS Picks / New Books

ABookRiotLoved pick for July!

InWe Are The Clash, Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki...are more interested in Strummer's strain to re-harness the power of punk to ignite opposition in the cynical Thatcher-Reagan era.
--The Current's Rock and Roll Book Club (Minnesota Public Radio)

The Clash may have not been the best example of integrity in the music world with their careerist opportunism but their message of hope and possibility, cribbed from Reggae and Soul music, is all too important.
--Maximum Rocknroll

When you think of The Clash, what comes to mind? Their early days in the London punk scene, perhaps, or the triumphant release of London Calling.We Are The Clashfocuses on a very different moment in the band's history: the point at which the group splintered in the early 1980s, and its members grappled with an onset of reactionary governments around the world.
--Vol. 1 Brooklyn, included in the July 2018 Book Preview

One of the most rewarding music books you'll come across this year...By focusing as much on the politics that motivated the Clash,We Are the Clashbecomes a vital political history as much as an account of an underdocumented portion of a band's career. Great music books catalyze critical reconsiderations;We Are the Clashdoes one better, inviting readers to consider what matters to them: the creative commodities that artists produce? Or the ideals, however complexly and clumsily human they may be, that often compel artists to create in the first place.
--Johns Hopkins Magazine

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