Joe Strummer in his Brigade Rosse t-shirt back stage at the Rock Against Racism concert, Victoria Park, 30th April 1978.

Beside him is actor Ray Grange who starred as a roadie in the film Rude Boy. Scenes of The Clash ‘live’ for Rude Boy were filmed on this day. When young people feel dispossessed and their needs ignored they are likely to admire those most radically opposing political establishments. I witnessed Joe Strummer and The Clash being youthfully seduced by the politics of Baader Minehof/The Red Army Faction and the Italian Red Brigades and Leila Khaled. Only later, as they realised the danger of moral short-cuts that can lead people to the wrong place, did they regret such youthful endorsements.

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