Every time I need to verify a concert or event date, I consult the lovingly archived and researched information on the Flipside Fanzine Memorial Site maintained by Michele Flipside. I vividly remember not only this ad from the newspapers, but also the concert.... The Clash headlining over the historic, seminal singer/songwriter/beatmaker for a generation, the great Bo Diddley. Even back in 1979, the absurdity of the billing was clear - and not at all lost on the members of the Clash, I'm sure. They were probably beside themselves that they could do something for rock n roll's very Originator . It was Bo after all, who penned the song, "Pills" that the New York Dolls covered in a such a way that we can call it "punk." And the Dolls were in no way the first white rockers to embrace the works of rock's black originators. Remember a little band called the Rolling Stones? I remember the first time I ever saw (and met) a member of the Clash, Mick ...