The Clash’s ‘London Calling‘ is set to be re-released later next month.The album, which was first released in December 1979, is set to be re-release on December 14.The release will celebrate the albums 30th anniversary.More details about the forthcoming re-release are still to be announced.
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Mick Jones and Nicky ‘Topper’ Headon, both members of seminal 70s punk band The Clash, have been in the studio together for the first time in almost thirty years to re-record one of their older songs for charity. The two members will record 1978 Clash song Jail Guitar Doors for Billy Bragg’s Jail Guitar Doors [...]
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Source: Guardian (Newspaper) (UK)"It may not seem the most obvious job choice for a man who fought the law, even if the law won. But Mick Jones, of the Clash, has decided on a more respectable career - by becoming a librarian. The lead guitarist, who was at the centre of the punk movement, opened his personal rock'n'roll library to the public today, saying he hoped it would inspire and educate...
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The past week or so, I've been reading Pat Gilbert's "Fashion is a Passion - The Real Story of The Clash", a historically interesting book on "The Only Band that Matters". For a longtime Clash fanboy like me, it's a worthy read, full of lots of drugstabbing tales featuring the likes of ...* Bernie Rhodes psychobabble (always entertaining, but what a pain in the ass he must've been),* Mick Jones...
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How's this for Funking Live on Funking Friday?.
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Sometimes, the fans take over and help to create the band. Letters scrawled on a blank wall, word of mouth praise whispered through dirty basement clubs, can bring a band more notoriety than a thousand PR folks could ever pray to create. And every once in a while, one of those fan created slogans becomes legendary.Two such slogans come to mind; the graffiti image "Clapton is God," and the widel...
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The song selection, the pacing, the energy, it's all representative of a band given forty-five minutes as an opener for a huge headliner.
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Can I really add anything more to this review from Amazon? "Touted for many years as the greatest live band in the world, the only surprise about this live album is that it's taken so long to appear. Recorded between '78 and '82, it captures the London punk torchbearers in all their fury--Strummer spitting out vocals like every breath is his last, the guitars of Jones and Simenon taut and abra...
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Twenty-five years ago today I experienced IMHO, The Best. Concert. Ever.This show was, sadly, the first and last time I ever saw The Clash. When they opened up with "White Riot" the crowd went wild and never let up. I emerged from the show with a few minor bruises, a huge grin on my face and a lifelong love for The Clash. Whenever I hear their music I'm transported back to the stalls. I'm seve...
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It is such a long time i've not moggin. A lot of things to be adjusted since I’ve relocated to Cambodia. I’m ok so far. Just sometimes Khmers look at me like I’m an alien. My coworker said i need to change my dressing style to be more poor. What the hell is that? I really don't get it!I'd say i'm influenced by weird things in Phnom Phen. I feel homesick. I really miss my life in Thailand. At
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............Robert Duvall, in total gung-ho oblivian, striding accross the beach like a lord of the manor, bullets flying, motar rounds landing, wrapped in his American bubble of certainty, convinced its his right to own the break 'cause..."Charlie Don't Surf". Determined, it is implied, to show Charlie what this place is for......There can be no richer metaphor for America's ambivilent self-i...
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Now, as I understand it, we all pride ourselves on our music collection/selections/confections, whatever. Well, I contend that if you have a collection of Rock Music and it does not contain **London Calling** ,Your collection is sadly incomplete.The Clash took on the world with this album, and pinned it to the mat. The boys display an affinity for, and impressive command of a wide range of pop...
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Joe Strummer - or John Mellor as he was then known - began studying at Central in Sept 1970, one of over 400 applicants for the 60 available places. He wanted to be a cartoonist, though he told people he wanted to be in advertising.Joe later described the school as the "last resort of malingerers and bluffers and people who don't want to work," but it has long been one of the most prestigious a...
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On the evening of August 13, 1976, The Clash invited some music journalists and friends to Rehearsals Rehearsals to see them play. Even in the hyper-small Punk world of the time they had gone unnoticed, quietly scheming, writing and rehearsing an arsenal of songs. The lucky few walked out of the balmy evening into a brick walled room with a rock and roll backline at the rear. Behind it was a pa...
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Yesterday I did a post of my "run in" with the law. I actually have never had any type of run in with the police, and do not even have a speeding ticket to my name. Scratch that, I did get caught driving with out insurance once but that is a whole other story. Anyways, on my post quite a few moggers gave ideas of great songs to be chased by the police to, and I had to agree they were pretty goo...
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