Spotlight On The Clash — London Calling
Kris Needs, Clash, December 2009
IT DOESN'T seem 30 years since that night at Wessex Studios when The Clash were putting the finishing touches on London Calling. We'd been sitting around for hours while Mick Jones and engineer Bill Price sequenced the tracks into their final running order, killing time by playing Space Invaders and doing animal impressions.
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