# We Are The Clash

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- Book: [We Are The Clash](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-andersen/we-are-the-clash) ([We Are The Clash.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-andersen/we-are-the-clash.md))
- Authors: [Mark Andersen](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-andersen), [Ralph Heibutzki](https://www.bookquiver.com/ralph-heibutzki)
- Publisher: Akashic Books
- ISBN: 978-16-1775-293-3
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2018-08-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.