10 Biggest Breakups In Rock And Roll History

The entire mindset behind the Clash in the early days was about more than just punk rock. After fiddling around with every genre that would suit them on albums like Combat Rock, it looked like their music was about to become the sound of the masses. Little did we know that everything was actually crashing down behind the scenes.

Once the tour for Combat Rock began to wind down, Mick Jones ended up getting kicked out of the band due to acting too much like a rockstar. Rather than take the pure punk approach, a lot of Mick's behavior while on tour catered to some of the more rock and roll cliches, from talking himself up a little too much to living a little bit more excess than everybody else. As it turns out though, the magic that he and Joe Strummer had was extinguished the moment that he walked out the door.

Though the subsequent album Cut the Crap was still labeled a Clash record, not even the band members consider it a mainline album in the group's discography. While it does feature Joe Strummer on nearly every track, this is the sound of a band as a shell of itself and just barely limping to get something of worth out. The breakup may not have happened in the traditional sense, but the Only Band That Mattered was dead and gone.