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Copyright © 2015 by Sean Egan
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Egan, Sean, author.
The Clash : the only band that mattered / Sean Egan.
pages cm – (Tempo : a Rowman & Littlefield music series on rock, pop, and culture)
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Summary: “In The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered, respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clash’s career and art through the prism of the uniquely interesting and fractious UK politics of the Seventies and Eighties, without which they simply would not have existed. Tackling subjects such as The Clash’s self-conscious tussles with their record label, the accusations of sell-out that dogged their footsteps, their rivalry with the similarly leaning but less purist Jam, the paradoxical quality of their achieving multi-platinum success and even whether their denunciations of Thatcherism were proven wrong, Egan has come up with new insights into a much discussed group”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-8108-8875-3 (cloth : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-8108-8876-0 (ebook)
1. Clash (Musical group) 2. Punk rock musicians–England–Biography. I. Title.
ML421.C57E43 2015
782.42166092'2–dc23
2014024677
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