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| | village voice > music > by Milo Miles |
 | | But it wasn't until he saw the Sex Pistols in April 1976 that he understood punk meant you stopped caring if the audience liked you, and just got on with inventing the future. |
 | | The members of the Clash got together through manager Bernie Rhodes, a sort of junior league Malcolm McLaren, but Strummer, guitarist Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Nicky "Topper" Headon (who replaced Terry Chimes after the debut album) plunged into a collective mission to not let the revolutionary moment pass. |
 | | Paint-spattered, dressed in battlefatigues or overalls or greaseball leathers and given to stencils of militant slogans, the Clash were a new type of inmate in the punk-rock zoo, determined to play out a contradiction—idealists with no respect for anything. |
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