The Clash Play Their Final Show (San Bernardino, 1983) — openculture.com

Few bands in rock ‘n’ roll history have faced as many charges of selling out—back when the term meant something—as The Clash. Even before they’d released their first record, they were accused of killing punk rock by signing to major label CBS. And 1985’s Cut the Crap, the final Clash release (hardly a Clash record at all by any true fan’s measure) has more or less been seen, rightly or not, as a money grab. For a band who stood in solidarity with working people and revolutionary leftist movements, The Clash walked a delicate line between financial success and political credibility.

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