ABSTRACT
The Clash are widely recognized to have been the premier British band within the 1970s punk revolution.
More politically astute than the Jam, the Buzzcocks, and other inherently pop bands, and able to sustain a high order of creativity over a comparatively long career as opposed to the incendiary Sex Pistols, the Clash supplanted the Rolling Stones as the greatest performing rock band in the minds of many critics and fans during the 1977-1986 period.
