Punk de Gauche, une figure imposée en 1978

From 1978, there are bits of autobiographies from members of a pop group named The Clash  whose writer was John Mellor alias Joe Strummer, a late BBC radio host.

The exploit was to achieve fame quickly into the mass medias industry without serious artistic skills.

There is few sentimentalism, his songs barely mention any female, instead tales of hard times endured by a young declassed englishman and his friends at the end of the seventies after a long period of labour rule. He  seems to get by according to a two line jungle style golden rule that hold his moral and ethic:

What you can't buy you gotta steal
An' what you can't steal you'd better leave

While achieving success he feels uneasy by the perspectives, echoing the no future generation. Boldly displaying a fighting spirit against the odds, he displays no illusion about  stardom in fact he sees his bunch as cheapskates. Leaving behind self struggle he turns against others,  claiming defeat for everyone.

Tales on working in a factory, odd jobs, far-right agression,  caribean third world, drug squad, youth gangs , their own path into the media industry, militarism, school souvenirs. An exhaustive state of mind of the left these time, much about posing to care of the third word while forgeting to keep its own standard. 

Overall the lyrics show ability of reflexive thinking and accurate although pityless social positioning. But most strikingly it is the irruption of politics into Top Of The Pops, one of a lasting influence in the next years with initiatives like Band-aid, Rock Against Racism and the campaign against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa that had invaded  the  media industry where conservatism were virtually banned.  A situation that has yet to be reversed.