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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Writing and recording [ ] The song was written by and. The title alludes to the 's: 'This is London calling.'

London Calling meaning. Find out more about the meaning of London Calling by The Clash. Dig into the lyrics, the cultural context of the song, and hear what the artist has to say. London calling definition, meaning, English dictionary, synonym, see also 'London',London pride',East London',Greater London'.

, which was used during, often in broadcasts to occupied countries. The lyrics reflect the concern felt by Strummer about world events with the reference to 'a nuclear error' to the incident at, which occurred earlier in 1979. Joe Strummer has said: 'We felt that we were struggling about to slip down a slope or something, grasping with our fingernails.

And there was no one there to help us.' The line ' London is drowning / And I live by the river' comes from concerns that if the flooded, most of would drown, something that led to the construction of the. Strummer's concern for police brutality is evident through the lines ' We ain't got no swing / Except for the ring of that truncheon thing' as the Metropolitan Police at the time had a as standard issued equipment. Social criticism also features through references to the effects of casual drug taking: ' We ain't got no high / Except for that one with the yellowy eyes'. The lyrics also reflect desperation of the band's situation in 1979 struggling with high debt, without management and arguing with their record label over whether the London Calling album should be a single- or double-album. The lines referring to ' Now don't look to us / Phoney has bitten the dust' reflects the concerns of the band over its situation after the boom in England had ended in 1977.

30-second sample—with applied 3-second fadein and 3-second fadeout—of 'London Calling' taken from. Problems playing this file? 'London Calling' was recorded at located in a former church hall in in North London. This studio had already proved to be a popular location with, and the band. The single was produced by and engineered.

Personnel [ ] 'London Calling' [ ] • –, • –, • –, • – 'Armagideon Time' [ ] • –, • –,, • – • – • – Artwork [ ] Continuing the theme of the retro -inspired LP cover, the single sleeve (front and back) is based on old Columbia 78 rpm sleeves. The cover artwork was designed by and is identical to the Columbia sleeve with the exception of changing the blank 78 covers that the young teenage cover models are listening to classic Rock and Punk LP sleeves. From left to right they are, ' debut,, debut, debut, 's and finally the debut LP.

Reissues [ ] The single has several issues, all with different covers. Four are from 1979 (catalogue number: 8087; S CBS 8087; 128087; S CBS 8087). In 1988, a special limited edition boxed set was released, containing three tracks, 'London Calling' on side one, ' and 'Rudie Can't Fail' on side two, a poster and two badges (catalogue number: CLASH B2). Two were released by in 1991 (catalogue number: 656946; 31-656946-22) both with 'Brand New Cadillac' on the B-side, the second one has an additional track on side two 'Return to Brixton (Jeremy Healy 7' Remix)' (see the table below).

In 2012, on the occasion of the International Record Store Day, a limited edition 7' was released, with a new mix of the song by MIck Jones, and an instrumental version on the B-side. Year B-side Format Label Country Note 1979 'Armagideon Time' 45 rpm 7' vinyl CBS S CBS 8087 UK Released on 7 December 1979; No. 2 for 1979, No. 37 overall. 1979 • 'Justice Tonight' (Version) • 'Kick It Over' (Version) 45 rpm 12' vinyl CBS 128087 UK A-side: • 'London Calling' • 'Armagideon Time'.

1979 'Armagideon Time' 45 rpm 7' vinyl CBS S CBS 8087 UK Alternate cover. 1979 'Armagideon Time' 45 rpm 7' vinyl CBS 8087 NL — 1980 'London Calling' 45 rpm 7' vinyl Epic 50851 USA A-side: '.

Released on 12 February 1980. 1988 • 'Brand New Cadillac' • 'Rudie Can't Fail' 45 rpm 7' vinyl CBS CLASH 2 UK Boxed Set; Limited Edition 1991 • 'Brand New Cadillac' • 'Return to Brixton' (Jeremy Healy 7' Remix) 45 rpm 12' vinyl Columbia 31-656946-22 UK — 1991 ' 45 rpm 7' vinyl Columbia 656946 UK — 2012 'London Calling (2012 instrumental)' 45 rpm 7' vinyl Columbia 7 USA New 2012 mix by Mick Jones and Bill Price. Released 2012/04/21 Chart success and critical reception [ ] 'London Calling' was released as the only single in the UK from the album and reached No. 11 in the charts in December 1979, becoming at once the band's highest charting single until ' hit No. 1 ten years later.

The song did not make the US charts, as ' was released as a single and broke the band in the US, reaching No. 23 on the pop charts. BBC Radio One DJ made a bet with Strummer that London Calling would make the UK Top 10 without them appearing on, the stake being a. When the record peaked at number 11, Nightingale was saved by a listener who donated a Cadillac. The Cadillac was subsequently auctioned to raise funds for the recession hit steel town of. 'London Calling' was the first Clash song to chart elsewhere in the world, reaching the top 40 in Australia.

The success of the single and album was greatly helped by the music video shot by showing the band playing the song on a boat (Festival Pier), next to on the south side of the, in a cold and rainy night at the beginning of December 1979. The single fell off the charts after 10 weeks, but later re-entered the chart twice, spending a total of fifteen non-consecutive weeks on the. Over the years, 'London Calling' has become regarded by many critics as the band's finest. In 2004, rated the song as No. 15 in its list of the, the highest position of the band and of any song. In 1989, the magazine also rated the album of the same name as the best album of the 1980s—although it was released in late 1979 in Britain, it came out in January 1980 in the USA.

'London Calling' was also ranked No. 42 on VH1's '100 Greatest Songs of the '80s'. It was erroneously listed as being released in 1982, when it was fact released in 1979. It is one of. Notable appearances and covers [ ] The Clash turned down a request from British Telecom to use the song for an advertising campaign in the early 1990s. In 2002, the band incurred criticism when they sold the rights to for a car advertisement. In an interview posted on his website, Strummer explained the reasons for the deal. I agreed to that.

We get hundreds of requests for that and turn 'em all down. But I just thought Jaguar. If you're in a group and you make it together, then everybody deserves something. Especially twenty-odd years after the fact.' The song was played back in during a scene where riot police and striking coal miners clashed. The song was used in the 2002 James Bond film to introduce the film's primary antagonist, Gustav Graves.

The song was used in the American TV Series in the episode '. The song was used for a 2012 advert, picturing a jet aeroplane taxiing through the streets of London passing numerous landmarks and parking outside the. Joe Strummer later became a for the, on a program called 'Joe Strummer's London Calling'. The song was performed live twice by during his November 2005 residency at London's - a venue also linked with many classic Clash and Joe Strummer concerts. Charts [ ] Rel. Year Chart Peak Position 1st 1979 UK () 11 19-03-301980 New Zealand () 23 1980-??-??1980 US Billboard 30 1980-??-??1980 Australia () 28 2nd 1988 UK () 46 3rd 19-07-311991 Sweden () 30 1991 UK () 64 See also [ ] • Sources [ ].

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Well I don't know what that was all about. I have been having really weird dreams lately. This one in particular more than normal. There I was in the film 'Waterloo road' which I haven't seen for years. I was in black and white as well. Me and John Mills were going up the road to this pub where they had his 'D-Day special' chicken (?) and he wanted to pay his final nine pence towards it.

The bar maid went away and then came back to say 'Sorry deary it's not here' To which I replied 'I bet that cunt Grainger's got it.' At which point Stewart Grainger comes out from the back of the bar from behind a curtain in a doorway jumps at me across the bar and I grab him by the belt buckle and the collar and threw him across the room to a table whereupon he lay upside down and dazed, then there was some other crap about the Italian army carrying these exaggerated machine guns and ammo boxes which were huge and made them look like those Warhammer figures that sad people in the Bournemouth shop play. The Italians were in colour for some reason then sadly my alarm came on and I woke up listening to the partially annoying Shaun Keaveny, still at least he's not the really annoying people on Radio 1.

Some woman came in the shop the other day asking for a 'Wind up radio' I said 'it's any of them that receive Chris Moyles Surely?' She didn't seem to understand.

I also met my Gran and Grandad in a dream the other night in their old house up the road from here. I was so excited to see them and I was amazed to be able to feel the corduroy material of my Grandad's sleeve saying 'ooh I can feel corduroy' I could see that my Gran seemed annoyed as I was too excited to listen to what they had to convey to me in the dream. I know I go on a lot about my dreams lately but they tend to be more interesting than the tediousness of day to day real life.

The thing is we in our little electronic emporium are bored with the crap of day to day life within the company and tend to make our own amusement. With the merchandisers, decorators and builders all having made a slightly better sow's ear out of the silk purse it was we have very little to do lately other than serve the people who come in to the place. Most of the time we tend to spend staring out of the window at the plentiful amount of good looking women that go past. Bach Cello Suite 2 Guitar Pdf Worksheets there. We tend to share I.E. 'you have to blonde I'll have the brunette' that sort of thing.

Well, it's better in one way than what we used to do. That was to send water rockets down the stairwell nearly decapitating ex members of staff and hitting aerosol air fresheners with hammers thereby turning them into lavender fragranced exocet missiles, (mentioning no ex members of staff called Ben Dawson lately of Guildford). I suppose it keeps us all of the streets and in our lovely grey and puss green shop. I can honestly say that if there was another job I would be off quicker than the air freshener rocket, which was fast, I hardly had time to dodge out the way as I was laughing so much.

Anyway enough nostalgia for better times here's the music. Links are as ever in the comments. Tonight's posts are Prince Buster - The Outlaw, The Smiths - Louder than Bombs and finally The Clash - London Calling/Vanilla Tapes/The Last Testament (The Making Of London Calling)DVD.

Princ Buster - The Oulaw The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs The Clash - London Calling The Clash - The Vanilla Tapes The Clash - The Last Testament (The Making of London Calling) http://rapidshare.com/files/206894181/TC-_TLT.part09.rar.