Pat Gilbert
The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock â€˜nâ€™ roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clashâ€™s music, which swiftly evolved from ferocious punk rock to incorporate reggae, ska, funk, jazz, soul, and hip-hop. ,Passion Is a Fashion, draws on over 70 interviews with the key participants in the storyâ€”roadies, producers, friends, and fansâ€”and conversations with the Clash: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon. The first book to give real insight into what went on behind the scenes during the Clashâ€™s ten-year career, it charts the Clashâ€™s picaresque progress through the days of the early punk scene and their groundbreaking Rock Against Racism gigs, to the arduous touring, to their break out in America, and the making of the classic ,London Calling, album, all the way to the bandâ€™s eventual dissolution and the sudden, sad death of frontman Joe Strummer. Gritty, compelling, and above all authoritative, ,Passion Is a Fashion, is the biography the Clash has long deserved.
Music,Nonfiction,Biography,Music,Punk,Biography Memoir,History,Music,Rock N Roll,Culture,Pop Culture,Adult
Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash