Forty years ago this month, the Clash drove into a ditch with 'Cut the Crap.' Here's the story behind one of rock's most legendary disasters ...

Musical reunions are big business, but The Clash never managed to reunite after 1986, citing a desire to do something new rather than focusing on the past.

At this point, The Clash had three guitarists. They were a five-piece band rather than the four-piece which became familiar. The guitarist who left a few weeks after the Screen on the Green outing was ...

Not everyone wants to live the rock star life. Terry Chimes, best known for being the Clash’s former drummer, revealed why he left the British punk group and music industry behind forty years ago.

The argument about whether punk originated in the seedy underbelly of London or New York is still going strong. But it ultimately doesn’t matter. Everybody got to enjoy the golden era of punk toward ...

Joe Strummer died quietly in his sleep on December 22, surprising to the last. As the leader of the primal punk outfit the Clash, he knew what the perfect rock band should be and lived when he could ...

Terry Chimes, who played drums in the popular British punk rock band The Clash, gave up the rockstar life and pivoted toward the medical field over four decades ago. In an interview on 'The Chris ...

Terry Chimes’ career has had two wildly different parts. After living the rockstar life as the drummer of The Clash, Chimes changed course and became a chiropractor in 1994. During a recent appearance ...

Keith Levene, the pioneering guitarist for punk-rock bands the Clash and Public Image Ltd, died on Friday. He was 65. His partner, Kate Ransford, and his friend, author Adam Hammond, announced the ...

When The Clash played the 100 Club a month later on 20 September – at what became known as the “Punk Festival” – Levene was out and they were the band which – despite some drummer wobbles – signed to ...