Know Your Rights (1982)įrom Combat Rock, the final album by the classic quartet of Strummer, Jones, bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon. Levene showers melodic gold dust all over this otherwise shouty punk stomper, but is better known for his work with John Lydon in Public Image Ltd. What’s My Name (1977)Ī Clash curio in that it’s the only one of the group’s songs to bear a writing credit for Keith Levene, the band’s original guitarist. The sentiment hasn’t aged well, but the song exemplifies the amphetamine-fuelled punk the band would leave behind. Guitarist Mick Jones now dislikes the first Clash single, its lyrics written by Strummer after the band were caught up in the 1976 Notting Hill riots and he concluded white people needed “a riot of our own”. ![]() “No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones / In 1977,” sang Joe Strummer, hardly about to let his love of such pop greats get in the way of punk’s declaration of year zero. A historical artefact, not for the proto-punk music, but because the lyrics epitomise the new wave’s perceived threat to the old guard.
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