Brick Alley’s Punk Poets

For me, growing up in a 1960s/’70s generation which had the likes of Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and the Allman Brothers, Strummer and his band struck me, initially, as another classic example of all spit and no polish.

Playing support to the Sex Pistols in 1976, the Clash made their first stumbling attempt at punk rock. The Pistols at the time were providing buckets of shark bait in a media feeding frenzy which caused them to become a strange corporate/anarchy hybrid.