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London Calling

album by the Clash

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In the Clash
…the eclectic, sophisticated double album London Calling (released in the U.K. in 1979 and in the U.S. in 1980); steeped in reggae and rhythm and blues, it brought the Clash their first American hit single with Jones’s composition “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)”—an afterthought added to the album so…
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In Joe Strummer
London Calling (1979) earned the Clash a reputation as masters of a stylistically diverse sound and was later named the best album of the 1980s by Rolling Stone magazine. Combat Rock (1982) featured the popular anthem “Rock the Casbah,” but it was the beginning of…
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