Addressing the overriding issues of the late seventies and early eighties, its no wonder The Clash's London Calling is Rolling Stone magazine's Greatest Album of the 1980's and number 8 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

It was their third studio album and dealt with social problems, drugs and racism through many styles of music from punk to R&B to jazz to reggae to soul, funk and rockabilly.

It has sold over 5 million records and went platinum in America. 

It was made when the band was in a mountain of debt. Band mates Joe Strummer and Mick Jones wrote parts of it in Mick's granny's house, yet they managed to get the legendary Guy Stevens to produce it.

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