Check out this column on The Clash, their amazing album London Calling and the city of London. It was perhaps inevitable that Marcus Gray’s book about London Calling would turn out to be as much about London itself as about The Clash’s most lauded album. The Transport for London roundel on the front cover is a clue: the ‘19’ in the title refers not only to the number of tracks on the record, but also to the Route 19 bus, which links Finsbury Park, in north London, and Battersea, in the south-west, and which Gray presents as the backbone of London Calling’s geographical reference points. Read more....
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