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"London's Burning" is a song by The Clash from their eponymous debut album. It is the eighth track in the U.K. version of this album, and the seventh track in the U.S. version, from 1979. It is sung by Joe Strummer (and Mick Jones, with Paul Simonon in the chorus), who starts the song shouting "London's Burning!" two times.
The London lyrics are said to be about the Great Fire of London, a five-day fire in the city of London in 1666. [1] The first notation of a round in this theme dates from 1580. [2] The Scotland lyrics are said to be about the Burning of Edinburgh in 1544, ordered by Henry VIII of England. [3]
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The lyrics refer to a Brixton-born son of Jamaican immigrants who "feel[s] like Ivan...at the end of The Harder they Come", referring to Ivanhoe Martin's death in the 1972 film The Harder They Come. Simonon was originally doubtful about the song's lyrics, which discuss an individual's paranoid outlook on life, but was encouraged to continue ...
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