The Clash – Classic interviews & Clips
“We tried to go to the Speakeasy, but they wouldn’t let us in because we weren’t cool enough . . .”
“I remember seeing all these people going in with Rod Stewart feather cuts and velvet flares, and just thinking: “You have no idea what’s about to hit you.” (The Guardian )
Ex NME punk journalist turned Daily Mail columnist/ author Tony Parsons recalls an evening hanging out with the Clash in 1977 (just before their first album came out), after a day spent together ‘going round and round the (Circle) line, drinking Foster’s and taking amphetamine sulphate.’