 "Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)")
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`London Calling' gets a 3-disc, extras-stuffed anniversary treatment.
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Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
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September 20, 2004
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Byline: Ben Wener
It was supposed to be called "The Last Testament" _ a crushing rock-is-dead statement, providing finality for the previous quarter-century of pop music with a miraculous batch of songs that swallowed the past and spit it back in wild new combinations.
That's what that Elvis-inspired cover image was all about. Where "Elvis Presley" displayed the future King hoisting his guitar high, his face flushed with the liberating, ecstatic rush of early...
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`London Calling' gets a 3-disc, extras-stuffed anniversary treatment.(The Orange County Register)
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; Byline: Ben Wener It was supposed to be called The Last Testament _ a crushing rock-is-dead statement, providing finality for the previous quarter-century of pop music with a miraculous batch of songs that swallowed the past and spit it back in wild new combinations. That's what that Elvis-inspired
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`London Calling': A magnum opus, punk-style.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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; Byline: Dan DeLuca What's the greatest pop album of all time? With apologies to Pet Sounds, Exile on Main Street and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, I'm going with London Calling. And I cast my vote for the Clash's 1979 double LP _ recently reissued in a three-disc edition, with
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 "Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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`London Calling': A magnum opus, punk-style.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
; Byline: Dan DeLuca What's the greatest pop album of all time? With apologies to Pet Sounds, Exile on Main Street and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, I'm going with London Calling. And I cast my vote for the Clash's 1979 double LP _ recently reissued in a three-disc edition, with
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Clash of Titans; Celebrating London Calling's 25th anniversary with a three-CD reissue. The Clash
Philadelphia Weekly
; Reissue of the year? Absolutely. There's little doubt that the Clash's third album, London Calling, has left its mark on rock history. Released in 1979 if you lived in Great Britain and 1980 if you resided Stateside (just one in a long list of record-company miscalculations during the band's
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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A riot of my own; Twenty-five years after London Calling, Mick Jones is back with a new band. In a rare interview, he talks to Chris Salewicz about life after The Clash - and why his moment may just have come again. All photographs by Pennie Smith.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Chris Salewicz DO I seem very distracted? Mick Jones asks me quizzically, bottle of Becks in hand, as he looks up from the mixing desk in Metropolis, an expensive recording studio in west London. Not at all, I tell him. Though I can understand why he asks the question. The guitarist and
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