How come the BbC hasn't taken it down. I'm delighted they haven't. Thank fuck it's still on KZbin I love BBC 4. BBC 3 used to be gold back in the day when it had documentaries rather than copying Vice, than being itself

The thumbnail showing men living in poverty, Strummer went to a boarding school ffs! 😂 Stealing working class men's experience for his own fake showbiz career. A fraud

I still have moments where I remember that Joe is no longer with us. It’s a melancholic feeling. Same as Cobain, Layne Stanley and everyone who took the most incredibly daring decision to make a life of their own.

Formed by what had prior been, and then by what would ensue, after that merry NYear's eve at 1:08:43 (it looks very 1973ish), the smiling jumping kid with a red shirt under a denim jacket would be dead by early Feb79. One of the Johns.

I SAW the Clash in Grand Rapids Michigan when I was 15 years old (1982)

At around 13m, when Joe takes his gear to the mechanic garage to spray paint it and hammer it in style, it's great to hear the mechanic calling him John, his real name. In some sense, Mellors came from upper middle-class background, but his fiercely independent ethos and tiredness from moving from country to country with his diplomat family, granted him a tough life prior joining the 101ers (and even then...). I heard the Clash around Spring of 77, on my 8th grade, and even though they didn't win over my Damned-and-the-Pistols admiration, i immediately placed them in ''my'' main contingent of bands to follow; not particularly fan of the last 2 albums (Combat and ...Crap), but the first two are punkly sartorial to my ears (London and Sandinista a bit more like family albums, but still great records i still spin). Hail Joe Strummer and may he know there'll be more like him in days to come.

Just great !

I was rocking The Clash in the Hood

The difference between them and now is that we are employing the young and the cheap whichever comes first, and in any country we can. Unions at their weakest. amA kid will get a job at any fast food place much more than their dad (or mom) will be able to hang on to their job. Parents will dig into their retirement savings, I'd any, having their kids at home longer, and hoping they will get on their feet sooner.

This is brilliant!! So glad to have found this gem of a doc -- been such a long time fan of The Clash since my primary school days in the early '90's. God Bless The Clash!! 🫡🇬🇧🎶

I was 18 in 77 .....

Was that Farage at the beginning of the doc ? I can see he was a 🔔end back then too

Brits need to watch this today. No more "posers", going back to honesty, questioning the system rather than ignorong class. Eat the rich still today 🤑

You forget how lame music was getting before the Pistols and the Clash. They woke us all up

lucky enough to see them live in 1981 👌

why they never show the drummer

Power to the people

No woke, no mobiles, no free Palestine Islamic hate mobs. Creation, culture, Bands and individuals. Music that mattered.

They sold out a whole Era. Shame on those junkies.

Who do you see?

Identify the different communities

You can hear them tightening up. A perfect stage to document a young band

The UK is dead !

大石あきこ

辻めぐむ

No! this is just utterly wonderful as an opening 5 mins ... Pure Diamond. Don Letts dancing, young Sid smiling at the camera ... Culture! ... Utterly utterly lovely ...

08:15 oi, strummer ❤

Ah ! jubilee and red star acid. Great music and good times 😊

First gig I ever went to, was to see the Clash in 1980 at De Montfort Hall in Leicester. I was 13 😏 never been so terrified in my life, and I’m an Army Veteran 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 still my favourite band of the punk era just a bunch of brilliant social commentators…… more relevant today than ever. RIP Joe . Thanks for the memories .😎

What a tune! Love it to bits!❤

43:34 Chrissie Hynde

They sounded bloody awful here live. Glad they improved.

Great footage of Malcom McLaren at his most lucid

I've met Brits who party hard. But Australians? Do that **** in their sleep. (No I'm American-North).

When the two sevens clash, there will be chaos. Culture named their first album "Two Seven Clash" for a reason in 1977. The Clash's first single "White Riot" was released in March of 1977. It was time for major changes in England. It's about time for that again, England is a mess.

Long live the Iron Lady!!! England needs Maggie Thatcher these days to straighten out these wankers and posers

I was a big fan of Adam and the Ants back in the 80...very fond memories. Such a shame how mental illness is rearing its ugly head again to such a talented guy .

When Mick was talking about meeting "arseholes", there was a brief glimpse of a young Billy Idol! LOL!

I was in Junior high when I discovered the Clash , Im 54 now and still love them Kentucky USA

DIDNT THEY RECORD AN Alb 1:03:07 um. Called. "CUT. THE. CRAP" . think it should of probably been called ..RECORDED CRAP... the album most Probably came with a plastic bag an a can of evo-stik... And a advice sticker. Saying "For musical enjoyment place glue in bag and inhale ..then put the needle on the record.. And wait for the WHAAARRR WHARR WHHAARRRSSSS...

The Clash the nice English punks!! media darling!!!

The Clash les gentils punk anglais !! chouchou des médias !!!

Wished backing track had been different, more vital, representing the punk energy, the dubb just lazified the whole doc

Round 16min were they really talking about ‘rich kids’…‘pretending to be poor’?!

All those faces though 47:41 19 yr old Shane McGowan. Stuart Goddard. John Ritchie. Chris Millar. I think the only one that was already who they were was Siouxsie. And Johnny Thunders, of course. 1:08:40 is quite sad how innocent Sid looks. 52:39 "i'm going to sell off everything, make it look good and leave us with nothing...". Thats what she meant. If I could go back in time she's the one i'd stop.

I never thought that punk was that revolutionary, musically. Drums, bass guitar vocals, verse chorus verse chorus. Perhaps attitude, but then even that became cartoonish, ten top tips on how to be a punk (1) safety pins obviously.... blah. It was the last generation that knew it was ok to be intelligent, well informed, but to use that to blast the establishment. The reason we're where we are now is that we just have a cult of stupidity and ignorance fostered in the 90s by 'revolutionaries' (LMAO) like Oasis, and no one cares about blasting the establishment.

excellent, albeit Mellor's fake working-class accent grates

Glorious Bog Roll Vision. Effin' Brilliant.

So good, so good ... the first 5 minutes of this are utterly magnificent film ... truly ... of course its all great, but the opening ... Lovely!!! Culture 2 7's playing ... the visuals ... wonderful...

Christ, he's even wearing a Hitler suit.... but leave the child out of it.