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40 years of London Calling 14:06 - Nov 19 with 2920 viewsE17hoop

Free exhibition at Museum of London
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/whats-on/exhibitions/london-call

It's always noisiest at the shallow end
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40 years of London Calling on 14:40 - Nov 19 with 2882 viewsfrancisbowles

Thanks for posting this. Will try and get along.
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40 years of London Calling on 15:29 - Nov 19 with 2831 viewsCroydonCaptJack

A friend of mine went the other day.
It includes that Iconic photo used on the front of London Calling.

One of the best bands ever imo
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40 years of London Calling on 15:46 - Nov 19 with 2802 viewsthame_hoops

Im going this weekend, gave it a swerve last weekend as it was the first day it was open.

do they still have the 2012 Olympic torch displayed there?
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40 years of London Calling on 15:54 - Nov 19 with 2794 viewsMaggsinho

Yes, still there.
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40 years of London Calling on 16:05 - Nov 19 with 2783 viewsFearless

I went on Saturday - very good.
But is in quite a small area and was very busy.
I’ll go again when hopefully it’s quieter.

Well worth a visit - and I Particularly liked the references to Elvis album cover.
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40 years of London Calling on 21:20 - Nov 19 with 2623 viewsHayesender

Planning on going Saturday, if my head is OK after Friday

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40 years of London Calling on 21:41 - Nov 19 with 2601 viewshubble

Taken by Pennie Smith - good article on her relationship with the Clash, here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/11/the-clash-london-calling-pe
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40 years of London Calling on 22:15 - Nov 19 with 2574 viewsPommyhoop

WOW!! How long has Osterley train station been defunct?
Perfect station for dodging fare back in the day

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40 years of London Calling on 23:50 - Nov 19 with 2529 views100percent

I went to the opening party. It's small but excellent.... Will definitely be going again.
If you are a Clash fan, or had the opportunity to see them when London Calling came out, there's some great pieces like hand written lyrics, items of clothing and guitars that you might recognise. I saw them play a lot of times - brought back some great memories....
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40 years of London Calling on 00:59 - Nov 20 with 2497 viewsBoston

Unless you're 95ish Pom, I'd say you'd recognize and still have a good crack at evading the fare at Osterley.

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40 years of London Calling on 08:18 - Nov 20 with 2422 viewsCroydonCaptJack

Pleased to see it is on for so long as well. I have no excuse to not see that.
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40 years of London Calling on 08:19 - Nov 20 with 2420 viewsqprxtc

I went to see it on Monday lunchtime with a bloke from work.

It's small, there's a Liam Brady Arsenal scarf, nothing about QPR. And nary a mention of XTC.

Good if you like broken bass guitars and pictures of Maggie winning the '79 election.

I had soup for lunch. Nice.
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40 years of London Calling on 09:30 - Nov 20 with 2382 viewsCroydonCaptJack

Not a fan then?
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40 years of London Calling on 10:52 - Nov 20 with 2359 viewsMick_S

I often find soup a little underwhelming. Rice, too.

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

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40 years of London Calling on 11:04 - Nov 20 with 2348 viewsElHoop

Am going to try to get along to see this on Saturday. I only saw them twice but the first time was just after London Calling came out, so presumably 40 years ago in Jan/feb. Sixteen Tons tour or something like that anyway.

I don't have anything about the Clash from that era - zilch. No programmes, tickets nothing. I had a couple of copies of Armagideon Times but my mum and dad threw out all that 'junk' when they moved house.
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40 years of London Calling on 12:40 - Nov 20 with 2324 viewsCroydonCaptJack

I think the best dozen tracks from Sandinista would make one of the greatest albums ever.
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40 years of London Calling on 16:58 - Nov 20 with 2241 viewshubble

Which tracks do you think they are Pete?
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40 years of London Calling on 17:45 - Nov 20 with 2206 viewsHantsR

The London Calling (BBC World Service) magazine was first published in 1939. Working in the bush, jungle or desert etc. I was thankful for this guide to programmes on my Short Wave radio.
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40 years of London Calling on 23:44 - Nov 23 with 2019 viewsthame_hoops

Went today. Really cool. Busy and very small but size isn’t everything 😆
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40 years of London Calling on 09:59 - Nov 25 with 1845 viewsElHoop

I went on Saturday too. I was amazed at both how small the allocated space was and how many people were there. It was rammed and with more younger people than old gits like me. Will try to get there again when it's likely to be less busy than it was on Saturday afternoon.

Got a couple of tickets for the 'gig' at the BFI, which is a rare chance to see the remaining three talking together.
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40 years of London Calling on 10:29 - Nov 25 with 1817 viewsqpr1976

Do you have the link for that.....?
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40 years of London Calling on 10:47 - Nov 25 with 1804 viewsElHoop

Yeah here's the link. I joined the BFI to get in the priority booking and I think tha tit sold out in ten minutes. Even then I got pretty crap seats, but I'm not complaining.

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::p
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40 years of London Calling on 11:43 - Nov 25 with 1777 viewsCroydonCaptJack

Sorry Hud, only just seen this and we could have chatted about this at half time the other night. It has given me a great chance to revisit this album though and I am going to do a spotify playlist of these now.

For me it is these -
Magnificent Seven
Junco Partner
Something About England
The Rebel Waltz
The Crooked Beat
Somebody Got Murdered
One More Time/
One More Dub
Up in Heaven
The Equaliser
The Call Up
Washington Bullets
Broadway

I know that is a bakers dozen but I am treating One More Time and Dub as one track.
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40 years of London Calling on 12:37 - Nov 25 with 1762 viewsMrSheen

Amazing to think that "Spanish Bombs" came out half-way between the end of the Spanish Civil War and today.




(Doesn't make it any good though!)
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40 years of London Calling on 18:47 - Nov 25 with 1723 viewssmegma

It closed in the 30s
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