Musical reunions are big business, but The Clash never managed to reunite after 1986, citing a desire to do something new rather than focusing on the past.

Forty years ago this month, the Only Band That Mattered drove into a ditch with one the Eighties most hated albums. How did it happen?

Punk died, the Silver Jews sang, the first time a kid shouted “Punk’s not dead!” The words are never uttered in Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and maybe that’s why you come ...

Sneering, political and stylistically varied, the Clash's music was a multisided peg that didn't fit comfortably with the primitivism of punk, where it's usually filed. Frontman Joe Strummer wasn't ...