The cover of London Calling features Clash bassist Paul Simonon in the act of destroying his Fender Precision Bass guitar at a concert in New York City. It was September 20, 1979, at the Palladium ...

Which brings us back to London Calling's album cover. The design wasn't new -- pink and green lettering framing a black and white photo -- in fact, it dated to 1956, when Elvis Presley 's debut ...

London Calling by The Clash was recently voted the fourth greatest album cover of all time by MusicRadar users. Pennie Smith's iconic photograph of Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass ...

The Clash "London Calling" album cover Aha, you say, that’s not all that’s in that particular cover’s visual toolkit. Those colors, the font, and the title placement are an homage to Elvis ...

Decades after a 1979 photo appeared on the “London Calling” album cover, Dave Marin is on a lonely quest to prove the picture’s date is off—by a day. “It’s my life goal,” he says.

Listen to The Clash's London Calling at 40. Amy Lamé and Don Letts play out The Clash’s ground-breaking double album London Calling in full - and are joined by Pennie Smith (who took the cover ...

London Calling reached No. 27 in the U.S. and made the Top 10 in the band's native U.K. It encouraged the Clash to get even more ambitious on their next album, 1981's sprawling Sandinista!

“London Calling is The Clash’s defining album, a rallying call for Londoners and people around the world,” said Beatrice Behlen, senior curator of fashion and decorative arts at the Museum ...

London Calling at 40: How The Clash shattered punk orthodoxy and created a masterpiece. As The Clash’s seminal third album is celebrated in a new exhibition, Chris Harvey reflects on its anger ...