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The Clash, Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Ritchie Coliseum, College Park MD

Joe Sasfy, The Washington Post, 1 October 1979

ENGLAND'S CLASH brought their version of rock's civil war to Ritchie Coliseum Saturday night. By the time they ended their second encore, a hypersonic invitation to chaos called 'White Riot', their attack on the spiritual dissolution of modern rock was complete.

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