Combat Rock Tour USA 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.

Dates - International articles - US articles - Snippets - Photos - Memorabilia - Video/Audio

Clash storm across Amerca

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The Clash: 'Punk Attitude is Important'

82 09 21 Philadelphia Daily News Tue (Gen)

The Clash: Into it now for the cash

82 08 31 Daily News Tue (PIer prev)

Strummer wins out in Clash of personalities

82 08 22 Chicago Tribune Sun (Asbury)

Rolling Stone,The year of the Clash

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 US interview

US interview

The-Clash-Joe-Strummer-Paul-Simonon-Mick-Jones

Village Voice music poll 1982

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Village Voice music poll 1982

Bohemian Blues

1982 Bohemian Blues
RIP Lester Bangs

They're still punks and still proud of it

82 08 04 The Windsor Star Sat (Jones Gen 1976)

The Who says farewell to the road

82 10 08 Poughkeepsie Journal Fri (JFK)

Hey Joe

French Interview

October 1982

Where is the concern over sublimal messages? Letters, lots!

82 10 13 The Burlington Free Press Wed (Burn Records SUNY)

A clash on The Clash

82 08 18 Daily News Sat (Anti Clint)

News, Chimes leaves the Clash

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NME music awards end of 8

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Who Killed the Clash?
The rucks, the drugs, the shocking truth

MOJO November 2008

Who killed the Clash post Shea Stadium. Early gigs, Bonds, mix 1982 hip hop tape, Topper and 1982, recording Combat Rock, Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg CD, Thailand, Joe’s disappearance, Pete Doherty & Mick Libertines, 1982 “crisis” year Bernie, 1983 Us Festival. So who killed the Clash?

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

Retropective magazine features, audio, video

For a full catalogies of retropective articles in magazines, interviews and features on TV and radio go here.

9 excellent photos from New York

Ebet Roberts
9 excellent photos from New York
musicpictures.com

Combat Rock sticker

CBS New York News - 1 Sept?

Joe, Paul Simonon interview, PIer 84

Toronto - at the old Exhibition (Grounds) Stadium

3 minutes

City Limits - before gig
'City Limits' Clash retrospective - Canadian TV from mid eighties. Two minutes of Tommy Gun live at the O'Keefe plus interview [w/ Pennie Smith?] about torn out seating. Also includes 5 Sep 82 car lot interview and April 84 Tour Bus interview.

Detroit Silverdome - 30 Sept

Police on My Back + Interview cut though. Cable news?

Saturday Night Live - 9 October

Straight to Hell after a mash up of quotes - Good qulality version circulate

Should I Stay or Should I Go

82 10 09 The Clash - (Live at Shea Stadium - Official 4K Video)

Joe Strummer & Paul Simonon on CBS New York News 1982

Off the Record with Mary Turner / October?

BBC Radio 6, broadcast 2008, Episodes 1/2/3

Don Letts, Mick on Shea Stadium / 1hr12mins

Radio Interview with Mick and Paul / October?

Jamaica World Music Festival - 29 November

Crew, various bands on stage, interviews / 8mins

Jamaica World Music Festival - 29 November

Interview with Paul Simonon & Kosmo Vinyl of The Clash / 13mins

Historic Films Stock Footage Archive
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Jamaica World Music Festival - 29 November

News report (all bands), Paul int / 3mins

Jamaica World Music Festival - 29 November

Jamaica, News report, Mick int, Police on My Back (full) / 4mins

00:58 Ranking Roger and Mick Jones
01:35 The Clash London Calling (snippet)
01:45 Rita Marley
02:05 Black Uhuru
02:33 The Grateful Dead
02:55 Bill Krautzmann Itw
03:08 Paul Simonon itw
03:16 Peter Tosh
03:23 Joe Strummer (snippet)
03:40 The Clash Police on my back