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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Clash enjoyed a fairly long career, but their biggest claim to fame has to be the punk rock classic “London Calling”, as well as the whole of the album of the same name from 1979.

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 Calling from the local Turtle ...

The band continued expanding into funk and even new wave, but their career spun out quickly with a lineup change and an ...

It’s likely a lot of folks thought that a double-album by The Clash was the height of folly before they released London Calling in 1979. How could the band’s potent but straightforward bashing ...