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6 unusual facts about Cut the Crap


Bernard Rhodes

According to guitarist Vince White, the working title of the Clash's last studio album, released in 1985, was Out of Control; the title was changed to Cut the Crap by Rhodes shortly before its release without consulting the band.

Cut the Crap

Following a break after The Clash's performance at the 1983 US Festival, the band reconvened that June for rehearsals in London, England.

Cut the Crap was not mentioned in the Clash documentary The Clash: Westway to the World (2000) and was acknowledged only briefly in the official 2008 book The Clash, pointedly not receiving an overview as the first five albums did.

Biographer Chris Salewicz noted that the "fundamental flaw" in firing Mick Jones from The Clash was that he wrote virtually all of the music.

Nick Sheppard

When The Clash sacked Mick Jones in 1983, Sheppard and Vince White replaced him, and he toured America and Europe with them in 1984, playing on their final album Cut the Crap.

The Clash: Westway to the World

The documentary implies that The Clash broke up in 1983 when Mick Jones left the band, and makes no mention of the post-Jones version of the band that existed between 1983 and 1986, nor the album that iteration produced (Cut the Crap).



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