The post 40 Reasons We Still Love The Clash’s London Calling appeared first on Consequence of Sound. In England, the 1970s were quite an eventful decade. The seemingly untouchable power of the ...

Much of London Calling was crafted while the Clash traveled across the globe in 1979. It was a period of tremendous instability marked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Iran Hostage ...

Ukrainian punk band Beton transformed the Clash‘s “London Calling” into a protest ... Billy Bragg called the band out for wearing t-shirts with far-right politicians on them.

Although “Rock The Casbah” had been co-opted by the jocks and preps at our high school, we still owned The Clash. My friend Lynn had liberated a copy of London ... on a white T-shirt, clamped ...

The band's name is The Clash, the record is London Calling." London Calling stood out from the punk rock of its time: It was political, knowing and clever. Compact disks were still a few years ...

Listen to the Clash Perform 'Death or Glory' When London Calling emerged in December 1979, it was obvious that the Clash had made an instant classic – a masterpiece that stands as one of rock's ...

Forty years ago, The Clash's iconic album London Calling and its equally famous record cover featuring Pennie Smith's image of the demise of a bass guitar, appeared in record stores across the UK.

The Clash was the natural product of that discontentment and disarray. Before London Calling was released, The Clash was struggling to stay together. After releasing their second album ...

Former Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon will co-executive produce a new biopic about the making of the band’s classic 1979 album London Calling, the BBC reported Wednesday. The script ...

The Clash's Joe Strummer would no doubt get a chuckle out of one of his band's biggest hits, 'London Calling,' being used to promote next summer's Olympic Games in London. The title track from the ...

Bono was wrong. All is not quiet on New Year’s Day. 2010 has arrived and with it the 30th anniversary of the Clash’s “London Calling,” released in the United States on Jan. 1, 1980.

London Calling, the world’s premiere tribute to The Clash, will play in Ulverston next month. London Calling are celebrating ...