Mick Jones (guitar), Joe Strummer (lead
vocals/guitar), Paul Simonon (bass),
Rehearsal Rehearsals studio, Camden Town,
London. November 5th 1976.

This is the image that I took before the famous
one when they turned to the wall, hands in the
air, as if being searched by the police (the image
which was used on the cover of the single
‘White Riot’).

It was in the Rehearsal Rehearsals studio that The Clash created
and adapted, with words and spectacular splattered Pollockian
‘action’ paint, the clothes made for them by fashion student Alex
Michon. Manager Bernard Rhodes told Michon: “There's gonna be a
lot of fighting in the streets. Things are going to get rough so we're
going to need clothes which are tough.” The purposefully sharp and
hard anti-hippy style of the clothes The Clash wore on stage and in
the street – no denim, no flares, no velvet – marked, in style, punk’s
revolt against the past.

Drummer Terry Chimes was not present. He was soon to leave the
band, to be replaced by Topper Headon.

From one of the two split sets of the limited edition box 'THE CLASH. A RELEVANT REBELLION'