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"This Is Radio Clash" is a single released by the English punk rock band The Clash in 1981. It did not feature on any of their studio albums, although it was included in the track listing of their compilations: The Essential Clash, The Singles, Singles Box and The Singles (2007).
"This Is Radio Clash", like their previous single "The Magnificent Seven", is a rap, punk-funk song that was influenced by old school hip hop acts from New York City, like the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five.[1]
The first public performance of the song was on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show in 1981.
[edit] Track listing (12" single)
Released in Canada with a cover sticker (12EXP 02622).
Side one
- "This Is Radio Clash/Radio Clash" — 8:30
Side two
- "Outside Broadcast/Radio Five — 11:07
[edit] Charts
- ^ D’Ambrosio, Antonino D’Ambrosio (06 2003). Monthly Review June 2003 Antonino D’Ambrosio. ‘Let Fury Have the Hour’: The Passionate Politics of Joe Strummer. Montly Review. Retrieved on 2007-11-24. “Strummer and Jones quickly recognized the power of rap music that was just emerging from New York City’s underground in the late seventies. “When we came to the U.S., Mick stumbled upon a music shop in Brooklyn that carried the music of Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, the Sugar Hill Gang...these groups were radically changing music and they changed everything for us.””
[edit] References
- Gilbert, Pat [2004] (2005). Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash, 4th edition, London: Aurum Press. ISBN 1845131134. OCLC 61177239.
- Gray, Marcus [1995] (2005). The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town, 5th revised edition, London: Helter Skelter. ISBN 1905139101. OCLC 60668626.
- Green, Johnny; Garry Barker [1997] (2003). A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with The Clash, 3rd edition, London: Orion. ISBN 0752858432. OCLC 52990890.
- Gruen, Bob; Chris Salewicz [2001] (2004). The Clash, 3rd edition, London: Omnibus. ISBN 1903399343. OCLC 69241279.
- Needs, Kris (2005-01-25). Joe Strummer and the Legend of the Clash. London: Plexus. ISBN 085965348X. OCLC 53155325.
- Topping, Keith [2003] (2004). The Complete Clash, 2nd edition, Richmond: Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 1903111706. OCLC 63129186.
