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According to the Rock The Casbah Songfacts, Clash Drummer Topper Headon wrote the music and the original lyrics. Vocalist Joe Strummer then decided to take Headon’s lyrics in a different direction, to tell the story of an Arab ruler (the Shereef) who hates music, but is defied by the citizens . According to former Clash co-manager Kosmo Vinyl, Headon’s original words were a filthy ode to his girlfriend. Vinyl recalled to Rolling Stone: “He had really pornographic lyrics for it if I remember correctly. Very, very pornographic lyrics.” Strummer’s inspiration for re-working the song came from the Clash’s other manager, Bernie Rhodes, who asked the band, “Does everything have to be as long as a raga?” after a particularly long take of the track “Sean Flynn.” Strummer told Rolling Stone shortly before he died in 2002: “I got back to the hotel that night and wrote on a typewriter, ‘The King told the boogie men You gotta get that raga drop.’ I looked at it and for some reason I started to think about what someone had told me earlier, that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran.”
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it doesn't matter if it's Punk or somewhatelse, The Clash were one of the bands you will remember in the everlasting history of popular music
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I love the clash, they may have been a punk band, but they paraded over genres like pop, arena, and jazz adding their style and doing it with grace and disordered beauty.
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never really noticed the piano in the song till now..interesting
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Oh Yeah!!
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I've got this special edition double LP vinyl, bought it in the 80:s. And I'm proud of it.
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Friken Froken, I did the same just now, was looking for my phone!!!
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yeah
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coolest song in the world.
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A great song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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<3
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A classic!
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where´s the magnificen seven??? T_T
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timeless. rocks Like A MotherFucker.
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first golf war?
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Cant beat The Clash, best group.
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Impressive Video Cip... Post-Punk OverlOaded!!!
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I don't know about put on bombs, whatever that is even supposed to mean... but it was like the US anthem during the Gulf War. Like Break on Through and Vietnam
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