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Vinyl Icon: The Clash

Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, May 2011

UNUSUALLY, FOR AN ALBUM awarded Vinyl Icon status, the "fi" of The Clash's eponymous debut is not of the highest. It is, however, an album which helped pioneer a radical change of thinking about the very nature and purpose of sound recordings.

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