Here, in the basement of the restaurant Paddington Kitchen (now Peking – Seoul), Mick Jones (later in The Clash) and Tony James (later in Generation X) worked on their London SS project in late 1975.
Among the respondents to an ad placed by them in Melody Maker, looking for people who were “into The Dolls, Stooges, and MC5” who wanted to start a band, was the young Steven Morrissey (later just Morrissey, singer of The Smiths) from Manchester.
The name of the band later came to haunt Mick Jones when The Clash became Britain’s premier left-wing political band. When questioned about it, Tony James stated: “We hadn’t thought at all about the Nazi implications. It just seemed like a very anarchic, stylish thing to do.”
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