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Learn all about The Clash on AllMusic. ... Mick Jones, Topper Headon, Terry Chimes, Nick Sheppard, Pete Howard, Vince White, Keith Levene. Album Highlights Full Discography. See Full Discography. Related Artists All Related Artists. Bob Dylan. The Jam. To ...
29. Jan. 2021 · Headon still plays music, sometimes with Clash-era contemporaries and longtime friends The Blockheads. He also works with Porchlight , a U.K.-based charity that helps the homeless. After more than two decades of addiction and brushes with death, Topper Headon's 17 years of sobriety serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for people struggling with their own demons.
Professional ratings. Waking Up is a solo album by Topper Headon best known as the drummer of The Clash. The album was released by Mercury in 1986 with a cover photograph taken by Tim White. "Leave It to Luck" was released as a single and as part of an EP. [2] The album was dedicated to the memory of Pete Farndon .
The song Rock the Casbah was written by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones [GB1] and Topper Headon and was first released by The Clash in 1982. It was covered by Tica, Peter B., Andrew Bissell, The Swing Easy Orchestra feat.
Drummer Topper Headon had developed a heroin habit and was sacked by the group that May. Within a few months, ‘Rock The Casbah’, the music for which multi-instrumentalist Topper had mostly written, reached the US Top 10. ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’ gave The Clash another worldwide smash in 1982, but international chart fame sat uneasily with their idealism and punk roots, and after ...
15. Mai 2022 · Headon’s biggest contribution to the band was the hit single “Rock the Casbah” from the album Combat Rock. He composed the music for the song, which led to him playing multiple instruments for it, including piano, bass guitar, and drums. Topper Headon left the band in 1982. Later, the departure was due to increasing conflict in the band ...
21. Sept. 2014 · Photo: Neal Preston/Corbis. Nick 'Topper' Headon may have been an unlikely choice for The Clash with his background in soul and jazz, but while other great punk drummers such as The Sex Pistols' Paul Cook was reined in by the straight-ahead power of the Pistols' three-chord punk, Topper's versatility would help The Clash to assimilate many ...
