Book description
Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clash's London
Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It has topped
polls for the best album of the seventies (and of the eighties). It
regularly makes the top five in Best of British album polls; and its
always there in the polls for the Greatest Albums of All Time.
Now Marcus Gray tells the story of when, how and where this iconic
album was made, detailing the stories behind its songs, revealing
contexts for the album both personal and political, and considering
the effects since on the members of the band and on our culture.
Marcus Gray is the author of
The Last Gang in Town
(1997), perhaps the best ever book on the Clash. He lives in Belfast.
