Experience 'The Clash Live: Revolution Rock' on the Big Screen in Nine Select Cities
One Night Only!!!
Legacy Recordings Celebrates the Release of 'The Clash Live: Revolution Rock' DVD With Special Theatrical Screenings on Tuesday, April 15
PRNewswire
NEW YORK
04/11/2008
Legacy Recordings will celebrate the release of The Clash Live: Revolution Rock DVD with a special one-night-only theatrical presentation of the electrifying live concert documentary in ten select cities on Tuesday, April 15.
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With the arrival of The Clash Live: Revolution Rock in stores on April 15, Clash fans in the following cities will have the unique opportunity to experience the full-length DVD cut of the film on the big screen:
New York Chelsea Cinemas San Diego Ultrastar Mission Valley 7 San Luis Obispo The Downtown Center Cinema Indianapolis Showplace 16 Chicago Showplace 12 Santa Fe CCA Cinematheque Seattle Metro Cinemas San Francisco Opera Plaza Cinema Boston Kendall Square Cinema Please check your local listings for full details.
Produced by longtime Clash collaborator Don Letts, The Clash Live: Revolution Rock seamlessly weaves together 22 definitive live concert and studio performances from 1977 to 1983 capturing the groundbreaking British band who established and expanded the power of punk-rock in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond.
The Clash Live: Revolution Rock follows the live transformation of the band, incorporating footage from all phases of the Clash's meteoric career, beginning with live-in-the-studio clips from 1979, crescendoing with triumphant concerts from clubland (London's The Music Machine, 1978) and theatres (the Lyceum, 1978, 1980), and climaxing with an transcendent blow-out, opening for The Who at New York's Shea Stadium in 1982.
The film also contains two television interviews dating from June 1981, when the Clash were in New York City playing an historic three-week, 17-show run at Bond's International Casino on Times Square. The first interview is with Tom Snyder on The Tomorrow Show, his long-running late-night NBC network staple, the second with local New York news anchor Sue Simmons on WNBC's Live At 5 broadcast.
Formed in London during the first wave of punk-rock in 1976, the Clash, known at the time as "The Only Band That Matters," became the most progressive and visionary rock band of its era, releasing five albums in six years, each a brave step into uncharted territory. Joe Strummer (guitar, vocals), Mick Jones (guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass) and, at various times, drummers Nicky "Topper" Headon, Terry Chimes, and Pete Howard embraced the energy and confrontational attitude of punk. Refusing the limitations of any musical genre, the Clash incorporated elements of reggae, funk, dub, rap, hard rock and roots rockabilly into a continually evolving and challenging sound. Taking its name from the headlines of the day, the Clash wrote songs addressing the issues of class and race confronting the UK in the 1970s.
The Clash was induced into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 2003, a month after the untimely passing of the group's frontman, Joe Strummer, age 50, in December 2002.
The Clash Live: Revolution Rock is the perfect way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Clash, the once-and-future "Only Band That Matters."
THE CLASH LIVE: REVOLUTION ROCK DVD
(Epic/Legacy DVD 728129)
Title Source Date/venue
1. Complete Control The Essential Clash DVD 1977
2. I Fought The Law Rude Boy movie Jan. 1979, London
Lyceum
3. Police & Thieves Punk and Its After Shocks Jan. 1980, Aylesbury
video Friars
4. What's My Name Revolution Rock Nov., 1977, Manchester
Elizabethan Suite
5. Capitol Radio One Revolution Rock Nov., 1977, Manchester
Elizabethan Suite
6. White Riot Revolution Rock April 1977,
Beaconsfield Studios
7. I'm So Bored With Revolution Rock Nov. 1978, Manchester
The U.S.A. Apollo
8. London's Burning Rude Boy movie April 1978, London
Victoria Park
9. 1977 Revolution Rock April 1977,
Beaconsfield Studios
10. (White Man) In Rude Boy movie July 1978, Glasgow
Hammersmith Palais Apollo
11. Tommy Gun Revolution Rock 1978
12. Safe European Home Rude Boy movie July 1978, London
Music Machine
13. London Calling Revolution Rock June 1981, Bond's
International Casino,
New York City
14. Clampdown Revolution Rock Feb. 1980, Lewisham
Odeon
15. The Guns Of Brixton ABC Fridays tv show April 1980, L.A.
16. Train In Vain Revolution Rock Feb. 1980, Lewisham
Odeon
17. This Is Radio Clash NBC Tomorrow Show with June 1981, NYC
Tom Snyder
18. The Magnificent NBC Tomorrow Show with June 1981, NYC
Seven Tom Snyder
19. Brand New Cadillac Revolution Rock Feb. 1982, Tokyo Sun
Plaza Hall
20. Should I Stay Or Revolution Rock October 1982, Shea
Should I Go Stadium, NYC
21. Know Your Rights Revolution Rock May 1983, US Festival,
San Bernardino, CA
22. Career Revolution Rock October 1982, Shea
Opportunities Stadium, NYC
DVD Extras:
1. Interview NBC Tomorrow Show with June 1981, NYC
Tom Snyder
2. Interview NBC Live At Five with Sue June 1981, NYC
Simmons
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SOURCE: Legacy Recordings
CONTACT: Tom Cording at Legacy Media Relations, +1-212-833-4448,
LegacyMediaRelations@sonybmg.com,
Web site: http://www.legacyrecordings.com/