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The career of the seminal British punk rock group the Clash is given a well-researched overview by music writer Pat Gilbert in PASSION IS A FASHION, which traces their rise from rank amateurs to one of the most influential bands of the genre. Using testimony from many of the band's closest friends and associates, like their road manager, Johnny Green, and clothes designer Alex Michon, Gilbert skillfully recounts the band's creation out of a moribund London music scene, as well as their first faltering musical steps (one rock critic's review that called them a "garage band who should be speedily returned to their garage, preferably with the motor running," prompted the writing of "Garageland," one of their most memorable early songs). He captures the tense, violent atmosphere of the times--and the incessant jockeying for status within the punk rock movement itself--in addition to atmospherically reconstructing the recording of the three epochal Clash albums, THE CLASH, LONDON CALLING, and SANDINISTA! Most poignantly, he records the band members' efforts to re-form some 15 years after their split, efforts finally thwarted by the tragically early death of their charismatic front-man, Joe Strummer.
| Size | | Length: | 404 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
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