Clash Documentary Matters  Westway to the World director has
been following band members for twenty-five years  By |  In
1977, The Clash was known as "The Only Band That Matters."
Today, The Clash -- Westway to the World -- the band's story as
told by its members to filmmaker and friend Don Letts --
underscores that bold claim with raw-powered live footage and
new interviews with members Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul
Simonon, Topper Headon and sometimes drummer Terry Chimes.  "I
was creating a blueprint for rock & roll, to show people how a
band can come together, do something and actually have an effect
-- the 'lest we forget' type vibe," explains Letts, who, twenty-
five years on, still calls himself a punk rocker.  Westway to
the World was conceived in 1999 as a very un-punk promotional
tool to help promote the Clash catalog and a long overdue,
posthumous live album, From Here to Eternity, but there was one
slight problem: "They didn't have four guys who were prepared to
go and promote this whole back cata