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Highways To Hell: Clash Clampdown U.S.A.

Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 7 July 1982

IT'S SUMMER and the Clash are back, not on Broadway but on the radio. 'Rock the Casbah' is blaring out of car windows not just in NY City and Boston but in Phoenix and Houston and LA and Louisiana. They have a hit on their hands and they're on the live circuit, playing their mind-crazed music all over the U.S. and U.K. This is the latest episode in the life of the band who turns philosophy into rock and roll; or, As The Clash Tour.

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