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Warm on the heels of their 3rd LP, the seriously praised and commercially booming London Calling, Joe Strummer (rhythm guitar and vocals), Mick Jones (lead guitar and vocals) and Topper Headon (drums) ensconced themselves inside Iroquois Hotel nearby Times Square on 44th Street in New York City. They had no songs in hand, but were going to make an LP that might baffle many people and amaze others, eventually pointing the way headed for the future of popular music. These three guys first booked a while at the Power Station studio, next moved toward the house that Hendrix built, Electric Lady Studios, to start work on a few new music.

Paul Simonon (bass and vocals), the fourth and last member of the Clash, was otherwise occupied as an actor at the beginning of recording the album, so the aforementioned three firstly forged ahead as a trio, which has a musical openness that might amaze sheer mortals. The hip-hop style of music was at present growing in NYC, and this vibrant, new city underground movement would instill and give energy to this new album. The result you can critic for yourselves, however in my view, this strikingly different, thoroughly inscrutable plus finally innovative 36-track LP stands alone, as a road sign of the times and showing the way for people who would go after in building the idea of world music.

This kaleidoscope of musical sounds is different due to mere variety of musical types represented in the album. The whole thing from hip-hop to rock to jazz to blues to gospel to calypso to roots to punk to reggae to dub is included on this enigmatic and inventive album. Enigmatic because some songs do not seem to have any similitude to songs at all and the reason could be that the band required stuffing to make the album stretch out to cover six complete album sides. And inventive because by combining a variety of musical styles on one record, through name-dropping places as far and wide as Asia, Africa, South and Central America, besides Europe and the U.S., the Clash handled to breathtakingly start to forge the truth that's world music today.

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