The Clash Take the Fifth 1979

Here is a list of known articles around the time of the tour. If you know of anything that is missing please do let us know.

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Record Mirror archive 1955-1981
Searchable, most editions

Fanzines: Great Collection
Great collection of scanned fanzines from the 1970s and 1980s

Poster

Clash Extension
Unknown / Tour News
15 August 79
The Clash who started a lengthy American Tour last week are due to tour Britain in November to tie in with the release of their new album. Tha band's American Tour, which included the Monterey Festival last week

Do these men look like Dolly Parton Impersonators

Boston Rock subway news – November 1979

Jenny Lens
Clash Photographer 1979-1981
I shot the Clash from February 1979 to June 1980. I didn’t bring my camera to the Sausalito Swap Meet, February 3, and ran into them and Johnny Green. I said hello, but too shy to tell them who I was or inquire about photo passes. Their debut California gigs were discussed in San Francisco at the Ramada Inn press conference

The Clash Play Revolution Rock
Chris Salewicz, Trouser Press, March 1980
IT'S FOUR days before Christmas. A dark, early evening damp with snow and rain. Immediately south of the Thames, in the inappropriately genteel Victorians... end of Tour chaos in LA.

NY Rocker flyer

Ray Lowry?

passes

The Clash Turn Pro (Sort Of)
Peter Silverton, Sounds, 29 September 1979

TUESDAY LUNCHTIME: Cleveland Airport. With a couple of hours to kill before my one-stop-only flight to Minneapolis and the first date on the Clash’s second American tour (bewilderingly named ‘The clash Take The Fifth’), I dragged out the Corona Calypso, balanced it sloppily on a tubular chrome ashtray (everything’s bigger and shinier at Cleveland Airport) and started attacking the keys. Unfortunately, this attracted the attention of a perambulating mahogany tree. ... more

Clash USA'79
NME Final Curtain

Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry

The shape I'm In
NME - 6 Oct 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes Pt1

Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry

Brother Creepers Over America or Suedes over the States

NME - 29 Sept 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes Pt2

Clash USA 79 - Ray Lowry

Have you heard the news, theres good rocking ronight

NME - 13 Oct 1979

Ray Lowry Clash Take the 5th Tour Notes Pt3

NME cover only – inside pages wanted

Thrills NME- 3 November-1979

NME - 13th October
Fastest gang in the West part 1

The Last Gang in The West Leaves Town
NME 13 & 20 Oct Paul Morley
Paul Morley of the NME travels on the tour bus from Detroit on the 17th through to New York on the 21st interviewing and following the band.
DETAILS: The Scene. The Clash on tour of America. There's a glamorous image, with a confident, crusading edge to it. The Clash: a lot of hope and responsibility there. America: it still means a lot. Clash's current six week coast to coast tip to toe tour of the United States Of America is their first major assault

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