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	BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - London Calling
		London Calling is the anthem of an era.
		But London Calling is not a lament to a country in crisis.
		London Calling ties in with punk and anarchy but this is no half-baked attempt at protest.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/londoncalling.shtml (317 words)

	London Calling by The Clash Songfacts
		The line, "London is drowning and I live by the river" came from a saying in England that if the Thames river ever flooded, all of London would be under water.
		Also it says "London Calling to the underworld come out of the cupboard u boys and girls" this is talking about the citizins of London would hide undergroud in the subway to get away from the bombings in London and often people would put their little "boys and girls" in the subway.
		The lines "London Calling, at the top of the dial, and after all this, won't you give me a smile?" means to me that doomsday is all over the news, that you can't escape it, and Strummer seems to be ironically asking people to keep smiling after the apocalypse.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2527 (1957 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Homage to London: Songs and Poems
		I was looking over Daniel Davies' (aka "dsquared") post with the lyrics to Noel Coward's "London Pride," and I thought I would run through some London songs and poems that have been in my head, from the Clash and the Mekons...
		The funniest London song I know is Adam Kay and Suman Biswas's "London Underground," which is a kind of comedic cover of "Going Underground," the classic song by the Jam (lyrics).
		London was bombed by the Nazis for for five years.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/07/homage-to-london-songs-and-poems.html (1179 words)

	London Calling (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"London Calling" by The Clash, from London Calling, 1979.
		The line "London is drowning/And I live by the river" comes from concerns that if the River Thames flooded, most of central London would drown, something that led to the construction of the Thames Barrier.
		The song did not make the US charts as "Train in Vain" was released in a single and broke the band in the US reaching #23 on the pop charts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Calling_(song) (1078 words)

	Freemuse: UK: Detained for humming ‘London Calling’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		‘London Calling’ is a song about terrorism, but not the kind of terrorism the world has become familiar with after the September 11 attack in New York.
		The song borrows its name from the World War II BBC News report that began, "This is London calling".
		Rolling Stone selected 'London Calling' as the best album of the 1980s, and the album is considered one of the most influential records of the past twenty-five years.
	www.freemuse.org /sw13293.asp (734 words)

	SALON: The Clash
		The title track began with a comically animated guitar-and-bass introduction that quickly lost its sense of humor; it was followed by a dizzying song cycle that remains giddy and fractious to this day.
		"London Calling" was personal and political, loud and soft; it was made up of rockabilly and pop, reggae and ballads, indignation and romance.
		"London Calling" was the first sprawling, extravagant, unquestionably great punk record.
	www.salon.com /weekly/clash960617.html (350 words)

	London Calling - The Clash - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Give 'Em Enough Rope, for all of its many attributes, was essentially a holding pattern for the Clash, but the double-album London Calling is a remarkable leap forward, incorporating the punk aesthetic into rock & roll mythology and roots music.
		Before, the Clash had experimented with reggae, but that was no preparation for the dizzying array of styles on London Calling.
		While many of the songs -- particularly "London Calling," "Spanish Bombs," and "The Guns of Brixton" -- are explicitly political, by acknowledging no boundaries the music itself is political and revolutionary.
	www.mp3.com /albums/3396/summary.html (669 words)

	"LONDON CALLING" BY THE CLASH
		In 1976, the place was London, and the new movement, which changed the course of popular music, youth fashion and the lives of hundreds of thousands of disaffected teens and 20-somethings, was punk.
		On the song "London Calling," Price recorded the stereo ambience mix on tracks 17 and 18 (see track sheet) and recorded the same ambience mix to tracks 7 and 8, but gated through Kepex gates and triggered by the snare mic.
		By 1986, The Clash had disbanded, but "London Calling" made the UK charts again in 1988 when it was rereleased as a single from the first of several retrospectives, The Story of The Clash, Volume 1.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_london_calling_clash/index.html (3733 words)

	London: South Bank and East End Neighborhoods
		When I was in London for a recent long weekend, I took a tour of the Globe, and the guide noted that nowadays heckling is encouraged at the dramas staged.
		I was moved each time the stage went dark and a quartet of singers, seated in a small upper bower, underscored the drama with a soulful song.
		Many of London’s most glorious attractions are free: the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Tate Modern, and the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, to name a few.
	viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/london_calling07.asp (1818 words)

	www.myspace.com/londoncallingusa
		London Calling pull out all the stops, pistons roar and fly out of the parking lot with 13 songs of snappy and achingly catchy guitar driven hard rocking pop statements that you do not have to have orange hair or nose rings to play around your kids without seeming desperate.
		All off the songs are equally strong and they uplift and put you in good spirits you when you hear them.This album is impressive, a perfect soundtrack for the summer for all who hang out on the beach to drink beer and check out girls.
		The result is London Calling's debut international release "You're So Lucky" which is to be released in June of 2004.
	myspace.com /londoncallingusa (1448 words)

	Media.Ford.com: JAGUAR MAKES CALLING 'HOME' A PART OF ITS SUMMER SALES CAMPAIGN
		London Calling also marks the first time for many years that Jaguar has leveraged it's British heritage as part of a communications program.
		Further reinforcement of that heritage is provided by the use of the song "London Calling", recorded by the well-known British punk-rock band, The Clash.
		A CD compilation of British music â“ including the London Calling track â“ is being produced to support this campaign.
	media.ford.com /article_display.cfm?article_id=12611 (368 words)

	ART FOR A CHANGE - London Calling
		Joe wrote some of the greatest Rock 'n Roll songs of all time, and his politically militant stance helped make the early punk rock movement the threat it was.
		When the CLASH released "London Calling"in 1979, my L.A. punk friends and I swooned over the menacing sound ("London calling to the faraway towns, now that war is declared-and battle come down").
		In the "London Calling" television advertisement there are images of a quaint London that reinforce a tourist's perception of British heritage...
	www.art-for-a-change.com /News/clash.htm (1233 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: London Calling: Music: The Clash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thus in the same vein if you do not own the Clash's "London Calling" hang your head in shame, don't speak to anyone until you get a copy and greatly worry about the sanity of the person on Amazon who describes this album as "over rated".
		There are great reggie, ska and pop songs to be found on this album, showing a variety that many other bands of the era would not be able to acheive.
		London Calling- one of the few 'cool' albums that are actually great.
	www.amazon.co.uk /London-Calling-Clash/dp/B00002MVQO (1379 words)

	Amazon.ca: London Calling: Music: The Clash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		London Calling from the Clash is the basis for any punk music.
		'London Calling' is a vertebrae for all that is different in the genre so aptly labeled, punk.
		There are just far too many songs on London Calling with shallow by the numbers leftist lyrics.
	www.amazon.ca /London-Calling-Rm-Clash/dp/B00004BZ0N (1634 words)

	The Rap Sheet: London Calling
		It was a glittering affair and a swan song for Lucy Ramsey of Headline Publishing, who had organized many, many events over the years in her publicity role for Headline as well as for the CWA.
		Set in London’s dark and violent gangland, this novel tells the tale of a gutsy mother and her two sons, and their lives in and out of jail.
		During a November 7 evening event at Battersea Park, London, the legendary author will be interviewed onstage, answer questions submitted by readers of The Times, and read from his forthcoming novel, Lisey’s Story.
	therapsheet.blogspot.com /2006/10/london-calling.html (1837 words)

	Amazon.com: London Calling: Music: Clash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Usually the song was about partying, chicks (and sex), or enchanted forests and castles and such and if the song didnt sound like this we hated it.
		London Calling is a band brimming with confidence--they can do anything--a band at its absolute peak.
		Songs like "Koka Kola," "Four Horsemen," "Death or Glory," and "Right Profile" are so tedious that you have to wonder if the Clash believed they could do no wrong.
	www.amazon.com /London-Calling-Clash/dp/B00002781Y (2038 words)

	Rolling Stone : London Calling
		Named after the call signal of the BBC's World Service broadcasts, the title alarm of the Clash's third album was an SOS from the heart of darkness.
		Strummer and guitarist Mick Jones channeled that trial and worry into a song, produced with hellbent atmosphere by Guy Stevens, that sounded like the Clash marching into battle: Strummer and Jones punching their guitars in metallic unison with Paul Simonon's thumping bass and Topper Headon's rifle-crack drumming.
		The line "London is drowning/And I live by the river" -- Don Letts' video of the Clash shows them playing the song on a boat on the Thames in drenching rain -- was based on local folklore.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/6595860/london_calling (290 words)

	GlobalEcho - Alternative Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		NOW that war is declared and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls London calling, now don't look at us
		A MAN was "frog-marched" off a plane on suspicion of being a terrorist - because he'd played the Clash song London Calling on his MP3 player.
		A taxi driver called the cops after Harraj Mann, 24, played him the punk anthem, which includes the lyrics "now war is declared and battle come down".
	www.globalecho.org /view_article.php?aid=7105 (560 words)

	Complete Listings, and directions on how to london calling song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The cream!' replied Margarita, pointing to the gleaming london calling song box and twirling round in front of the mirror.
		With the tip of her london calling song Margarita put a little blob of the cream on her palm, which produced an even.
		But instead of calling check mate and shimmying her way to TV dance star her mother - who recently admitted Caoili had studied ballet at the Academy of London.
	london-2.apexo.info /london-calling-song.htm (710 words)

	Treble: The Clash - London Calling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"London Calling," the song, is huge enough on its own that one hardly seems prepared for what's to come.
		The resulting song contains one of the band's most lovely melodies and some of their most memorable lyrics: "the hillsides ring with `free the people'/or can I hear the echo from the days of `39." And Mick Jones' delivery "Lost in the Supermarket" is an ironically emotional take on the banality of suburban life.
		One of the most strongly dub-influenced songs is "Guns of Brixton," which is the only song on the set that's sung by Simonon.
	www.treblezine.com /reviews/895.html (1193 words)

	Rolling Stone 3/1/84
		And it was clear from the opening notes of the first song, "London Calling," that the new Clash is as angry and self-righteous a political beast as ever.
		And every song, from "Rock the Casbah" to "White Riot," from "Should I Stay or Should I Go" to "Police and Thieves," had been stripped down to the basics.
		The group was at its rehearsal studio, located in a warehouse in London's Camden Town section, when Simonon and Strummer gave Jones his walking papers.
	londonsburning.org /art_rolling_stone_03_01_84.html (1382 words)

	The Clash’s London Calling 25 years on
		JOEY RAMONE once said, “The Sex Pistols were a cool band...but The Clash were a great band.” Today, 25 years since the release of their greatest album London Calling and two years after the death of Clash frontman Joe Strummer, time has proven him right.
		Now, on the 25th anniversary edition of London Calling--a box set that includes a CD of previously unreleased songs and a documentary DVD--the band sounds as fresh as ever.
		The song is a brilliant reggae-fuelled anthem: “When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come/With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun/When the law break in, how you gonna go/Shot down on the pavement or waiting on death row.”
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/517/517_13_LondonCalling.shtml (526 words)

	Steven Rubio's Online Life: london calling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Albums are kinda old-fashioned these days, but there's barely any need to hit shuffle or skip on this recording, a two-record set in the vinyl days that fits just fine onto one CD now.
		It starts with the classic anthem "London Calling," followed by a cover of a British rockabilly song.
		They certainly mattered to me. London Calling, along with Darkness on the Edge of Town, got me through a lot of bad times working at the factory.
	begonias.typepad.com /srubio/2005/06/london_calling.html (948 words)

	London Calling Tab (ver 3) by Clash @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
		Band: The CLash Song: London Calling Album: London Calling Tabber: clark@theoddmenout.com ~= ring out chord Chords Used: Em E/F G D e--7--7---10-----
		Verse 3: (All downstrokes) Em E/F London calling, yes, I was there, too Em G(Fill) An' you know what they said?
		Em E/F London calling at the top of the dial Em G(Fill) After all this, won't you give me a smile?
	www.ultimate-guitar.com /tabs/c/clash/london_calling_ver3_tab.htm (157 words)

	NPR: All Songs Considered: Episode 70
		Epic Legacy records celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Clash's London Calling with a packed reissue, including a documentary on the making of the album and rehearsal tapes for the sessions.
		With her warm, haunting voice, Seattle's Laura Veirs writes introspective, atmospheric songs that mix grunge drum loops with simple folk melodies and found sounds.
		Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was a violinist before pursuing a professional singing career as a mezzo soprano.
	www.npr.org /programs/asc/archives/asc70/index.html (375 words)

	Clash (the) - London Calling Song Lyrics
		London calling, see we ain't got no swing
		London calling, see we ain't got no highs
		London calling at the top of the dial
	www.elyrics4u.com /c/calling_the_.htm (209 words)

	How Much Do You Know About "London Calling"? quiz -- free game
		Which of these was not a song on the Clash's album "London Calling"
		Which of these is not a lyric in the album's title song "London Calling"?
		London is drowning and I live by the river...
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=200684 (215 words)

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