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London Calling
The Clash
London Calling wasn't written about a place. It was written about a panic.
Autumn 1979: Joe Strummer is reading about a nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania, a flooding Thames, and a country coming apart after a winter of strikes. He folded it all into four minutes.
Which 1979 fear do you think aged the worst?
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