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Writers: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer Producer: Guy Stevens Released: Jan. '80, Epic Did not chart Named after the call signal of the BBC's World Service broadcasts, the title alarm of s was an SOS from the heart of darkness. When they recorded the song, the Clash — British punk's most political and uncompromising band — were without management and sinking in debt. Around them, Britain was suffocating in crisis: soaring unemployment, racial conflict, widespread drug use.
'We felt that we were struggling,' said, 'about to slip down a slope or something, grasping with our fingernails. And there was no one there to help us.' Strummer and guitarist Mick Jones channeled that trial and worry into a song, produced with hellbent atmosphere by Guy Stevens, that sounded like the Clash marching into battle: Strummer and Jones punching their guitars in metallic unison with Paul Simonon's thumping bass and Topper Headon's rifle-crack drumming. Over that urgency, Strummer howled through a catalog of disasters, real and imagined. The 'nuclear error' referred to the March 1979 meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. The line 'London is drowning/And I live by the river' — Don Letts' video of the Clash shows them playing the song on a boat on the Thames in drenching rain — was based on local folklore. 'They say that if the Thames ever flooded, we'd all be underwater,' Jones said — except Strummer was living in a high-rise flat at the time, 'so he wouldn't have drowned.'
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