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This is the last transmission from The Clash—a band that defined British punk’s political conscience.
By the winter of 1985 the original Clash was dead: Mick Jones gone, Topper gone, Bernie Rhodes back in control, Joe Strummer broken but still swinging. What they left behind is an album almost everyone—including Strummer himself—tried to bury. Yet thirty-five years later “This Is England” remains one of the most unflinching class-war songs ever cut to vinyl, and the sleeve itself is a perfect artifact of that moment when righteous fury collided with collapse.
The cover is pure agit-prop collage: torn posters, marker-pen scrawls, a brick wall that looks like it’s been kicked in. It’s the visual equivalent of the record’s sound—raw, over-loaded, defiant even in failure. For anyone who lived through the miners’ strike, the Reagan-Thatcher axis, or the feeling that punk’s revolutionary promise had been sold for a stadium tour, this sleeve is documentary evidence.
First-year copies are genuinely scarce in clean condition. Most were bought by teenagers who stuck posters over them.
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