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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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The definitive biography of The Clash – now fully revised and expanded for the band’s 50th anniversary. First published to universal acclaim and widely regarded as the essential account of The Clash, Passion Is a Fashion returns in a major new edition to mark fifty years since the band detonated onto the London scene in 1976. Drawing on Pat Gilbert’s unrivalled access as a former MOJO editor, this book reveals the untold story of a group whose ferocity and creative ambition shaped modern music. This landmark biography includes: Exclusive interviews with The Clash – Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon – plus managers, road crew, producers and other insiders. A vivid, behind‑the‑scenes chronicle of the band’s meteoric rise. The cultural and political forces that shaped The Clash and defined their uncompromising vision. Fresh insights and newly added material from surviving members of the band and other major figures close to them, appearing for the first time in this new edition. Packed with the energy of punk’s golden age, Passion Is a Fashion takes you inside the real story of The Clash – capturing not only their brilliance but also the chaos and heartbreak that forged their enduring legend. This is the indispensable Clash book, now more essential than ever.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock'n' roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash's music, which swiftly evolved from ferocious punk rock to incorporate reggae, ska, funk, jazz, soul, and hip-hop. Passion Is a Fashion draws on over 70 interviews with the key participants in the story,roadies, producers, friends, and fans,and conversations with the Clash: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon. The first book to give real insight into what went on behind the scenes during the Clash's ten-year career, it charts the Clash's picaresque progress through the days of the early punk scene and their ground-breaking Rock Against Racism gigs, to the arduous touring, to their break out in America, and the making of the classic London Calling album, all the way to the band's eventual dissolution and the sudden, sad death of frontman Joe Strummer. Gritty, compelling, and above all authoritative, Passion Is a Fashion is the biography the Clash has long deserved.
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The Sweeney broke the mould for British cop shows. Until it was broadcast, they’ d been rather stolid, sometimes quaint, dramas like Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars and Softly, Softly about policemen – or even bobbies: not cops.They were about upholding the law: not breaking it: about smart blue uniforms, not kipper ties and long hair. They were about preventing or punishing violence – not about inflicting it with pleasure on villains. Then, in 1975, The Sweeney burst onto commercial television. Based on the notoriously corrupt activities of Scotland Yard’ s Flying Squad, it followed two dishevelled, uncouth detectives, Regan and Carter, played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, who hurtled around unsalubrious parts of London in a battered Ford Granada roughing up anyone who failed to spill the beans quickly enough. Where Dixon of Dock Green would bid his viewers “ Goodnight all1” , with a cheery salute, this pair snarled “ Shut it!” at toe-rags who spoke out of turn and “ Put ‘ em away, love” at gangsters’ molls whose boudoirs they’ d burst in on. Philip Glenister’ s Gene Hunt in Life on Mars is both parody and homage.Now Pat Gilbert has written the book on this cult cop show, interviewing dozens of people who made it happen, from screenwriters to stuntmen. It’ s an essential companion to one of the DVD box sets.