Artist: The Clash
Album: Sandinista!
Length: 3:34
Vocals: Mick Jones (Joe Strummer speaks the "Sounds like murder" section)
Themes:
Additional Information:
- Joe Strummer: "We got a phone call from Jack Nitzsche and he said 'We need a heavy rock number for this movie with Al Pacino' [1] so I said OK. I went home and there was this guy in a pool of blood out by the car parking kiosk. That night I wrote the lyric. I gave it to Mick and he wrote the tune. We recorded it and Jack Nitzsche never called back." [2]
- live premiere in April 1980 [3]
References:
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