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Today in yesterday: The Clash release first U.S. single (1979)

January 24, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

A cover of The Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law.”

The original, with slightly less convincing “law-fighters”:

Although…

ALSO:

In 1978, the workers in an EMI pressing plant in England refused to press copies of the Buzzcocks’ single What Do I Get because they were offended by the flip-side, Oh Shit.

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