Yet, to the outside world, things appear more tranquil.
Drunken insults will be exchanged with The Clash at a festival supposedly celebrating brotherly love and togetherness. The guitarist is threatening to burn the master tapes of the new album, which is taking considerably longer than the usual five days to record. The singer, on one of his many exotic adventures, is lost in the Amazon rainforest weeks before the biggest gig the band will ever play. Story by John Scanlan (Author of Van Halen: Exuberant California, Zen Rock’n’Roll )