Some stuff and things from a boy who should almost certainly be doing something else.
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As time passed, Strummer gave increasingly confused interviews about “rebel rock”, changing the world, the special role he had to play in that change, England’s turn to the right under Margaret Thatcher, the collapse of the punk community and the possibility of reinventing it, social injustice, fascism, the end of the world, and when there might be a new Clash album. He wasn’t saying anything terribly different from what he and many more has said in 1976 and ‘77 - but in London in ‘76 and ‘77, the old rock’n’roll dream of “taking over the world” hadn’t meant topping the world’s charts, it was supposed to mean making the charts irrelevant, and then proving that the charts and graphs and ledgers that governed the structures of everyday life - the hierarchies of education, work, family, bureaucracy, politics - could be made just as irrelevant. Now, though, with Thatcher’s brutal, popular Tory rule, the oppressions punk had fought when it gave birth to itself - the oppressions of false leisure, false work, false entertainment - seemed like the playthings of childhood, and Strummer sounded like a crazy old man.
— Greil Marcus, ‘The Last Broadcast’ in In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992
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