- 2018
- year of publication
- 400
- pages
- English (United States)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- ISBN-13
- 978-16-1775-293-3
- EAN
- 9781617752933
- Publication date
- 2018-08-02
- Book
- We Are The Clash · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
We Are The Clash is a gripping tale of how the band - fractured by its Top 10 success - fought to reinvent and purify itself as George Orwell''s 1984 loomed. This extraordinary effort crashed headlong into a wall of internal contradictions, personal tragedy, and rising right-wing power as personified by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. While the world teetered on the nuclear abyss, British miners waged a life-or-death strike, and tens of thousands died from US guns in Central America, The Clash launched a desperate last stand, shattering the band just as its controversial final album, Cut the Crap, was emerging.
