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TOPPER HEADON - I FAUGHT THE LAW

By Lionel GUEDJ

Art - Culture - Development 2020

The Clash auditioned 206 drummers when Nick “Topper” Headon bumps into the rehearsal room. With Topper, The Clash became “the only band that matters” and the spearheads of an entire generation and beyond. But Topper got trapped by the addictions which plunged him into guts of hell…

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Lionel GUEDJ
- Writer(s)
- Lionel GUEDJ, Henry PADOVANI
- Producer(s)
- David NIVESSE (TO BE CONTINUED), Vincent BRANÇON (TO BE CONTINUED)
- Synopsis
- Early 1977 when Nick “Topper” Headon auditioned for The Clash, he just wanted to make a name for himself. The Clash auditioned 207 drummers, but Topper’s talent stood out. It was with him that The Clash took on an unmeasurable dimension, and it was without him that the beginning of the end began to loom. Topper got trapped by the addictions, all of them, and ended up homeless, bankrupt and busking in the underground. And, yet, he still lives at a hundred miles an hour like a teenager whose boundless energy is impossible to channel. As if he thinks youth is eternal and he can catch it on the hop. Topper fought the law, and the law won, but he also fought life, and life isn’t up to it.
- Partners & financing
- Straight Up studios
- Beginning of shooting
- Dec 01, 2021