Strummer performed lead vocals on the majority of songs but he and Jones sometimes shared the lead. Once the band began recording, Jones rarely had a solo lead on more than one song per album, though he was responsible for two of the group’s biggest hits. On 13 August 1976,…
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The Damned played their first show on 6 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club . A lo-fi recording of the show was later released as Live at the 100 Club (2007). As part of London’s burgeoning punk scene, the Damned again played the club on 20…
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the Damned , another London SS spinoff, made their own scheduled debut two days later.
the Clash made their debut performance on 4 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the Black Swan nightclub in Sheffield .
On 4 June 1976, childhood friends Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall . Afterwards, both felt inspired by the Pistols’ performance. Sumner said that he felt the Pistols had “destroyed the myth of being a pop star, of…
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In March of that year, at the instigation of Rhodes, Jones contacted Simonon and suggested he learn an instrument so he could join the new band Jones was organising.
In February, Jones saw the Sex Pistols perform for the first time and commented: “You knew straight away that was it, and this was what it was going to be like from now on. It was a new scene, new values—so different from what had happened before. A bit dangerous.”
The Clash promoted a left-wing message in their songs and interviews and sang about social problems, such as career opportunities, unemployment and the need for a backlash against racism and oppression. Joe Strummer said in 1976: “We’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-violence, we’re anti-racist and we’re pro-creative”. Strummer also said: “I don’t…
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A confrontation between Black youth and police at the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival was important in the development of the Clash’s political stance and inspired Joe Strummer to write ” White Riot “. Images of the riots were used as The Clash’s stage backdrop and as the back cover of…
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In 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. , then a 14-year-old pupil of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, Ireland, posted a note on the school’s notice board in search of musicians for a new band. For the first practice, which was held on 25 September in Mullen’s kitchen, Mullen played drums…
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