The Clash: Rude Boy
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 January 1980
LONDON CALLING? It hardly covers the situation. Every is-or-was punk fan in the country must be quietly slavering to see the Clash film and apprehensive that Rude Boy will go the way of The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle and be lost in the legal shredder.
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