Minutes later, a bomb in the bag exploded. The terrorist attack on the Milk ... conducting pre-operational surveillance, organizing the Casbah’s population, and, of course, carrying out terrorist ...

Joe Strummer wept when he learnt an American bomb emblazoned with the words "Rock the Casbah" was dropped on Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. It was a great blow to the man born John Mellor ...

Released in 1982, off The Clash’s fifth album Combat Rock, “Rock the Casbah” made its radio rounds and got the then-obligatory video rotation on MTV, quickly becoming the biggest U.S. hit ...

In “Rock the Casbah,” she provides invaluable context for what she rightly terms “the epic convulsion across the Islamic world” by listening to voices we don’t usually hear. Wright ...

"Rock the Casbah," then, is an introduction to the Muslim world 10 years after 9/11, and the author's purpose is partly to illuminate and partly to instruct. From Wright’s perspective ...

When we asked him how he wrote “Rock The Casbah,” he delighted us by sitting down at his piano and playing the initial sketch of the song he presented to the band in 1981. Click to listen to T ...