THIS MONTH IN POP
SEPTEMBER 1983
UB40 RAISE A GLASS, GARY NUMAN ENTERS BATTLE MODE AND KISS TAKE OFF THEIR MAKE-UP
STEVE O’ BRIEN
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The Clash issue a statement announcing that Mick Jones had left the band at the start of the month. “Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon have decided that Mick Jones should leave,” the press release stated. “It is felt that Jones drifted away from the original idea of the group.” Strummer would later say in the documentary Westway To The World that “Mick was intolerable to work with by this time. He wouldn’t show up. When he did show up, it was like Elizabeth Taylor in a filthy mood.”