The CLASH - The Experience

Maud Berthomier tells the story of The Clash year by year while emphasizing the musical and cultural experience that this story represents in the eyes of the group's biggest fans. A book full of memories and testimonies, and one of the rarest - punctuated at the end of each chapter by chronicles by journalist Christophe Conte , from The Clash albums to Combat Rock .

The Clash experience, this lived story - which is perhaps yours - is that of musicians as different as Joe Talblot and Robert Del Naja of the bands Idles and Massive Attack; that of English, American or French rock critics under the tutelary shadow of Lester Bangs like Jim DeRogatis, John Ingham and Serge Kaganski. Or that of men of the image from photography, with Richard Schroeder, or from cinema, with FJ Ossang. Maud Berthomier interviewed each of them and in the seven long interviews that she orchestrated, they all tell how the Clash changed their lives and inspired them.

With the Clash, music becomes a way of being in the world. It questions art, sex and politics, it is a factor of revelations, even of emancipation and revolt. So, if you are a fan of the group or just curious about the era, throw yourself into these pages and you will (re)find what the Clash were and still remain today: the spearheads of an immense joy of living, of a boundless surge of empathy and generosity, and of a deep pledge of frankness and musical requirement. And may the rock fight continue with you!