British pop art pioneer Derek Boshier dies aged 87
April 2024
On Resistance Street review – punkish record of music’s long battle with racism
The Clash are the touchstone for a story that stretches back to the 50s, told in interviews with many campaigning rockers
June 2023
The joy of the slow burn record: ‘Not only did I warm to his drawls, I became obsessed’
Sometimes, 20 years after dismissing an album, it’s suddenly exactly what you need. Our writers pick out the music that crept up on them
March 2023
Forget Take That – here’s the music Charles should have for his coronation
As reports swirl on the big stars playing or snubbing the upcoming coronation, here’s a few numbers that would actually sum up king and country in 2023
November 2022
Keith Levene obituary
Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash, dies at 65
May 2022
Rebel rebel: from Joe Strummer to Coventry ska girls, people who broke the mould – in pictures
With images of Run-DMC or female gang members, British photographer Janette Beckman is interested in bringing out her subjects’ complex inner lives
March 2022
Kyiv calling: famous Clash anthem reborn as call to arms
Rebel Dread review – an engaging portrait of Don Letts
September 2021
A lust for life … my years backstage with the giants of punk
From Ramones to Iggy Pop, photographer Michael Grecco met them all. An exhibition of his work recreates the movement’s glory days
July 2021
Bass guitar smashed at Clash gig to join relics at Museum of London
Fender bass was hurled into stage by Paul Simonon in New York, as seen on London Calling album cover
March 2021
'Woke' culture is threat to protest songs, says Don Letts
Fear of ‘cultural appropriation’ stops some from creating rebellious music, says the Clash videographer
December 2020
'London calling to the faraway towns': how British music changed this American's life
Geoffrey Kabaservice
As a teenager in 1980s provincial Florida, I heard radio DJs dismiss punk as unlistenable garbage. Then I heard the Clash
As she returns with a new album, the French chanteuse recalls the genius of the Clash and Henry James, plus encounters with Balearic naturists
May 2020
Phil May obituary
Powerful vocalist, frontman and songwriter with the Pretty Things, the outlandish rock band that inspired Bowie and Nirvana
March 2020
The filth and the fury: punk graphics - in pictures
Andrew Krivine has been collecting punk memorabilia since 1977. His book Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die contains over 650 posters, flyers, record sleeves and adverts, charting a DIY ethos that changed graphic design for ever
January 2020
From the Guardian archive
The Clash's London Calling reviewed – archive, 1980
Ranked
The Clash's 40 greatest songs – ranked!
November 2019
'We had the same brain' – how Pennie Smith turned the Clash into icons
She photographed the biggest stars. But it was the Clash she clicked with. Pennie Smith relives their first explosive US tour – and reveals how she took ‘rock’s greatest photo’
