Music
March, 1986
Nelson GeorgeA Chief rock-critic preoccupation of the late Seventies and early Eighties, The Clash was aggressively, defiantly punk in aesthetic and musical attack, providing a stark contrast to the vapid mainstream rock stars of the period. And so politically correct that The Clash was regarded by fans as the only band that mattered.Yet behind the posturing and the ragged energy was a snide, Great-White-Father-out-to-save-the-world subtext not very different from the Thatcherism the band abhorr...
