The Clash chords |
Songs in Mine:
| 18 |
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No of Chords:
| 36 |
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| Most popular chords: | A, D, G, E, F#m |
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Chord Types used:
| 8 |
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| Most popular chord types: | Maj, m, m7, 7, 5 |
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Sub-Styles:
British Punk, Hard Rock, Punk | Links:
Artist Info, Learn to play rock guitar | 
Artwork courtesy of http://www.music-atlas.com | | Biography: | | The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihlistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. From the outset, the band was more musically adventurous, expanding their hard rock & roll with reggae, dub, and rap rockabilly among other roots musics. Furthermore, they were blessed with two exceptional songwriters in Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, each with a distinctive voice and style. The Clash copped heavily from classic outlaw imagery, positioning themselves as rebels with a cause. As a result, they won a passionately devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. While they became rock & roll heroes in the UK, second only to the Jam in terms of popularity, it took the Clash several years to break into the American market and when they finally did in 1982, they imploded several months later. Though the Clash never became the superstars they always threatened to become, they restored passion and protest to rock & roll. For a while, they really did seem like "the only band that mattered."
For a band that constantly sang about revolution and the working class, the Clash had surprisingly traditional roots. Joe Strummer (b. John Graham Mellor, August 21, 1952) had spent most of his childhood in boarding school. By the time he was in his early '20s, he had busked on the streets of London and had formed a pub-rock band called the 101'ers. Around the same time, Mick Jones (b. June 26, 1955) was leading a hard rock group called the London SS. Unlike Strummer, Jones came from a working class background in Brixton. Throughout his teens, he was fascinated with rock & roll, and he had formed the London SS with the intent of replicating …
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