Twenty-eight years after its original release, the Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Route 19 Revisited is about the making of this iconic album, detailing the stories behind its songs and placing them in contexts personal, musical and socio-political.From the Hardcover edition.

Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and the Making of London Calling

Arts & Photography

GRAY, Marcus

Music

Vintage Books

Twenty-eight years after its original release, the Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Route 19 Revisited is about the making of this iconic album, detailing the stories behind its songs and placing them in contexts personal, musical and socio-political.

Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling

JONATHAN CAPE.

Twenty-eight years after its original release, the Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Route 19 Revisited is about the making of this iconic album, detailing the stories behind its songs and placing them in contexts personal, musical and socio-political.

Now in its second edition, It Crawled from the South is an encyclopedic, non-linear, mostly non-hagiographic book about those enigmatic guys from Athens, Georgia. Marcus Gray furnishes thumbnail sketches of each member, as well as chapters on the band's recording history, politics, album packaging, and regional accent. The author is also fearless enough to venture into the black hole of Michael Stipe's lyrics. He doesn't, to be sure, make sense of Stipe's associative rambles, and the singer himself lets Gray off the hook by confessing that "three-quarters of my lyrics probably come from overheard conversations. I steal a lot, basically. Someone will say something really interesting, and I'll write it down." Okay. But we'd still like to know what a moral kiosk is.

It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. (Rock Band) Companion

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

The Clash were simply the greatest rock'n'roll band of the post-'60s era. They combined the iconoclasm of the Sex Pistols with the swaggering gang mentality of Exile on Main Street-period Rolling Stones: glaring menacingly in combat fatigues while tearing through tunes that mainstream pop bands would kill for. "White Riot" was the calling card, London Calling the instant classic, "Rock the Casbah" the American breakthrough hit, and "Should I Stay or Should I Go" the posthumous UK #1 single. Tracing Strummer and company's progress from street busking to the pub circuit to US stadiums (and back!), The Clash is a fascinatingly detailed study of the first band to take punk to the masses and survive for a decade against all odds, as well as an intriguing investigation into the gap between rock reality and rock myth. "The only band that matters" is finally getting its due! The Clash will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town

The Clash

HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

(Book). Revised and updated to cover the Clash's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the band members' post-Clash careers, The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town now includes the first full account of Joe Strummer's "Wilderness Years," his triumphant comeback with the Mescaleros, and his sudden and tragic early death. Extensively revised and updated from both its 1995 and 2001 incarnations, The Clash traces the band members' progress from dispiriting rehearsals in damp London basements to packed American stadiums. A fascinatingly detailed account of the first band to take punk's radical politics to the masses and survive for a decade against all the odds, it also offers an intriguing investigation into the gap between rock mythology and rock reality.

The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town - 2nd Edition

Clash, The

Hal Leonard

London's Rock Landmarks

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

Whether you grew up with the Clash or discovered them after they broke up, you probably think you have at least a rough idea of the Clash story. It is far more likely, however, that what you have is a rough idea of the Clash myth. Over the years, the myth has been revisited and reworked numerous times by the band and by the music press that helped fashion the legend in the first place. The real story has never been told. Last Gang in Town is the first full, critical biography of the definitive punk band. Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon grew up deluged with popular music and its associated culture. In 1976, inspired by the emerging Sex Pistols and in alliance with original Pistols idea man Bernie Rhodes, the group set out not only to redefine the rock and roll experience and to reform the music business, but to change the world.

Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash

Henry Holt Co.

Details the story of three young men--Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon--who formed a band designed not only to redefine the music business but also to change the world

'''R.E.M.'' COMPANION: IT CRAWLED FROM THE SOUTH'

Guinness Publishing Ltd.

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Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and the Making of London Calling

Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling

Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling

It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. (Rock Band) Companion

The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town

The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town - 2nd Edition

London's Rock Landmarks

Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash

Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash

'''R.E.M.'' COMPANION: IT CRAWLED FROM THE SOUTH'