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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]
The Clash is the debut studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash, released on 8 April 1977 through CBS Records.Recorded and mixed over three weeks in February 1977 for £4,000, it would go on to reach No. 12 on the UK charts, and has been included on many retrospective rankings as one of the greatest punk albums of all time.
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"London's Burning" (round), a nursery rhyme derived from the Great Fire of London "London's Burning" (The Clash song), a song by the Clash; London's Burning, a 2011 British television film; London's Burning, a television series about fire fighters in London; London's Burning (audio drama), based on the American television series Dark Shadows
John Alford (born John James Shannon; 30 October 1971) is a British actor.He played Robbie Wright in the BBC series Grange Hill (1985–90) and Billy Ray in the ITV series London's Burning (1993–98).
Her first verse of “So Long, London,” continues this story, capturing her feelings as she realized they wouldn’t make it. Timeline-wise, Jack Antonoff revealed Swift wrote “You’re Losing ...
The song showed considerable musical and lyrical maturity for the band at the time. Compared with their other early singles, it is stylistically more in line with their version of Junior Murvin's "Police and Thieves" as the powerful guitar intro of "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" descends into a slower ska rhythm, and was disorienting to a lot of the fans who had grown used to their ...