Album: Combat Rock (1982) Prior to his departure from the band in 1983, Mick Jones had one more great song in him for The Clash, and he wrote it by thinking back to the beginning.

The Clash’s biggest Top 40 commercial success in the US was still a few years down the road. That would come via a pair of hits from their 1982 album Combat Rock.

Jones was a co-founder of the Clash in 1976, and remained a vital part of their lineup through the release of Combat Rock, their commercial breakthrough, in 1982. It was during this time, however ...

The Clash enjoyed a fairly long career, but their biggest claim to fame has to be the punk rock classic “London Calling”, as well as the whole of the album of the same name from 1979.