London Calling, the third album by English rock band The Clash, was released on December 14th, 1979 in the United Kingdom and January of 1980 in the United States. London Calling has impressive subject matter coverage; topics range from racial conflict, unemployment, and drug use to safe sex, the tragic life of actor Montgomery Clift, and social displacement. The album has enjoyed an enormous amount of praise and critical acclaim, from the time of its release to the present day. London Calling was on the Top 10 Album Chart in the United Kingdom, and its title track London Calling was a Top 20 Single. In 2003, Rolling Stone Ranked it on their Top 500 Albums Of All Time List. London Calling Q&A.

12/13/2014 by Kenneth Partridge. 0. Any punk band worth its leather and studs can do dystopian, apocalyptic angst. 14, 1979 - The Clash approached doomsday as only it could. Instead of lamenting the end of days or fantasizing about some anarchic future, like their peers The Sex Pistols did, these ice-cold Londoners slicked back their hair and stood tall in the face of World War III, environmental collapse and whatever else loomed on the horizon. A nuclear error, but I have no fear, frontman Joe Strummer sang

London Calling is the third studio album by English rock band The Clash. It was originally released as a double album in the United Kingdom on 14 December 1979 by CBS Records, and in the United States in January 1980 by Epic Records. The Clash recorded the album at Wessex Sound Studios in London during August, September and November 1979, following a change in management and a period of writer's block for Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, the band's lead vocalists, guitarists, and lyricists

Tracklist: 1. London Calling, 2. Brand New Cadillac, 3. Jimmy Jazz, 4. Hateful, 5. Rudie Can’t Fail, 6. Spanish Bombs, 7. The Right Profile, 8. Lost In The Supermarket, 9. Clampdown, 10. The Guns Of Brixton, 11. Wrong ‘Em Boyo, 12. Death Or Glory, 13. Koka Kola, 14. The Card Cheat, 15. Lover’s Rock, 16. Four Horsemen, 17. I’m Not Down, 18. Revolution Rock, 19. Train In Vain. 2. Brand New Cadillac.

London Calling is the third album from The Clash. The iconic cover photograph of bass player Paul Simonon smashing his guitar to pieces was taken by photographer Pennie Smith at the New York Palladium in 1979. Simonon was reportedly unhappy with the band's performance, and wrecked his guitar during the final song White Riot. He later gave the watch he wore that night to Smith as a present, broken as he swung around his guitar, the hands stuck at ten-to-ten. London Calling (3:20).

Album Name London Calling. Music StylePunk-Rock. Members owning this album143. Disc 1 - london calling.

Before, the Clash had experimented with reggae, but that was no preparation for the dizzying array of styles on London Calling

Clash-wise, there are other, more snapshot-type things that still take me back to that gut feeling I had then; perhaps an odd backstage one, maybe one that’s never been seen before. While it was probably an accident that the London Calling cover evoked the gear destruction of The Who, there was a more deliberate rock pastiche in the font, colours and layout of the lettering – which was stolen wholesale from Elvis Presley’s self-titled 1956 debut. When that Elvis record came out, says Simonon, rock’n’roll was pretty dangerous