The real story of this album, Live experienced by those who believed, here ... In April 1977 appeared the first Clash album, glowing firebrand whose cover smelled good urban guerrilla warfare and set fire to the old England, ravaged by the economic crisis, but who still lived on the remains of its former glory. They were not the only ones to wave the banner of revolt, but unlike the anarchic nihilism of the Sex Pistols, the Clash proposed a more structured political vision they would soon inspire a movement like "Rock againts Racism" ...
November 1978: release of second album The Clash "Give 'em Enough Rope" and the beginning of incomprehension. Firstly the album cover, all in bright colors, blue, red, yellow, full of Chinese, was horrible! The titles were good, but the sound awful! the group had appealed to Sandy Pearlman, producer of Blue Oyster Cult, to achieve that half missed that album was no longer quite punk and not to hard. The obsession with conquering the US market had begun to take its toll and it was only the beginning ...
Let the hacking episode 1 album ahead of its US release, some securities disappearing while others were added ... The release of the third album of Clash, a double sold at a single price was announced for December 1979. The excitement was at its height in the community Kepon my chest, all in the starting blocks waiting feverishly fateful date! Ready! Steady! Goooooo! The rush! The vision of the disc cover had the effect of a shock and an indescribable rush ensued, Paul Simenon smashing its accuracy as in the heyday of The Who! Whaouuu! We found OUR those of the first Clash album as revered ...
Alas! The joy was short-lived and the first listening the cause of a cruel deception! This is KOI that? There was misrepresentation of the product! The cover announced the Apocalypse, but the cake was to propose that the mainstream rock at the con! It was a betrayal! On reflection, if we had been more attentive, we would have noticed that the felony was enrolled in any letter on the same pouch. By taking the lettering of the first album of Elvis Presley for RCA, the same man of treason to the cause of the King of rock & roll, the Clash did they not reedited, unconsciously, almost 25 years later, the same feat, preferring the choice of lucre than probity?
The good souls and the fans of Bruce Springsteen will then say "album is good!" and actually it is .... but it was not what we expected ... and still the only REAL Clash album that remains .... FIRST!
