From the original UK punk wave that struck the music underground in the mid-1970s, nobody saw such a commercial stature as The Clash.

Spending the decade broadening their fierce garage attack with a broader canvass of reggae, rocksteady dub and old-school R&B, The Clash entered the 1980s in the critical glow of London Calling not just as one of new wave’s biggest names, but leading the fore of the second British invasion as an America conquering stadium-seller only just behind The Police.