The Common Ills: A MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RAPPO CLAPPER

Friday, July 16, 2021

A MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RAPPO CLAPPER

"we are in Electric Lady Studios, 8th St, NYC, during the Transit Strike of 1980 for The Clash's "Magnificent Seven", first released on the 3 LP set Sandinista!...."

To get the best stories, you talk to people who were there.
So on the latest episode of the Record Store Day Podcast, Paul Myers talks with a man named Kosmo Vinyl, a name some of you who love The Clash probably recognize.

A sort of consigliere to 'the only band that matters', he was there when they hit Shea Stadium (that's him letting the world know "We ain’t got no baseball/ We ain’t got no football/But what we ‘ave got is a little bit of what’s going on in London at the moment…”), his is one of the pair of hands clapping on "Magnificent Seven", and he was there when the band sat down to talk about their latest album Sandinista! for a little promo record sent out to radio programmers around its release.

That promo-only record (made up of tracks and interviews with each band member) is coming to record stores commercially tomorrow as part of RSD Drops.
Kosmo Vinyl gave it fresh new cover art, some liner notes, and talks with Paul Myers on the Record Store Day Podcast to flesh out what was going on
with Joe, Mick, Paul and Topper around that time.

May we suggest that it's the perfect thing to listen to if The Clash If Music Could Talk is on your shopping list for tomorrow? Or if you're at all interested in great stories about one of the most iconic bands in rock 'n' roll?

The Record Store Day Podcast.
Wherever you get your podcasts
or bit.ly/RSDPODCAST

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