History of Music Lesson 5 - The Clash

Many of you probably lie awake at night pondering the most intellectual of all dillemas- who would win in a fight between Falco and Hasselhoff, for instance (personally my money is on the Austrian, and he's been dead for a good ten years!).

The rest of you may be wondering what the future of punk or even music itself would have been like without the almighty The Clash? I shudder to think..

The Clash made punk accessible and more honest than the attention seeking likes of The Sex Pistols, and more importantly made music not just anarchist noise. The variety of their music was second only to Sensory Input, and man thats a good second place to be at.

Tonight, do your studying and check out this funkiest of Clash Live tracks: Train In Vain. Check out that hook and do your music collection a favour and buy a copy of London's Calling. RIP Joe Strummer.