Band : The Clash

Album Title : Live Revolution Rock

Label : Sony - BMG

Distributor : Sony - BMG

Release Date : 06/10/2008

Release : DVD

“Live Revolution Rock” is Don Letts’ latest Clash oriented film isn’t nearly as insightful as “Westway to the World”, the Grammy-winning documentary that he had put together nearly a decade ago. This new DVD provides only the most basic details about the group’s career. Nevertheless, there is a story that is told over the course of its 66-minute running time. And it will appeal to The Clash’s biggest fans. On this DVD you can hear 22 songs that were recorded between 1977 and 1983. By presenting them almost in chronological order, it depicts The Clash’s transformation from a hard-driving punk band to an arena-rock outfit that desperately was trying to hang onto its roots. Two of the final three songs that are featured on the set with “Should I Stay or Should I Go” were taken from The Clash’s appearance with The Who in Leeds in 1982. This DVD is peripheral and complementary to the other pictures with The Clash. But it doesn’t really function very well as a standalone outing. But for all The Clash fans it’s so compelling that it’s hard to dismiss the collection completely.

75/100

Guido Claes.