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Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled
into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a
job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up
van to performances in the mean industrial towns of England.
Disaffected youth anointed the Clash as their spokesmen and made
the group synonymous with punk itself in the late 1970s. Eventually
becoming the band's road manager, Green had a unique vantage point
from which to witness the burgeoning punk rock movement while
helping the band in their perpetual search for women, booze, and
drugs. Green was with the Clash when they conquered America,
bringing with them their bad behavior and great music, and burning
out after their third, too-long tour. Written in a
tell-it-as-it-was style and accompanied by contemporaneous drawings
by Ray Lowry, who tagged along with the Clash on their American
tour as their official "war artist," "A Riot of Our Own" pierces
the heart of the culture and music of punk rock and the people who
lived it.
'Hugely enjoyable ... Green's great achievement is to recapture exactly how those moments felt, but remain sufficiently detached about the whole thing to render the experience honestly' MOJO Johnny Green first met the Clash in 1977. A RIOT OF OUR OWN is his tale of three delirious years of rock 'n' roll madness as confidant and road manager of the Clash, from the early punk days to LONDON CALLING and touring America. Ray Lowry accompanied the band as official 'war artist' on the second American tour and designed the London Calling album cover. Together, in words and pictures, Green and Lowry give the definitive, inside story on one of the most magnificent rock 'n' roll bands ever.
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