Album: London Calling.
Year: 1979.
With its big bouncy beat, swinging jazz horns and lyrics about doomed actor Montgomery Clift, “The Right Profile” is a object lesson in what The Clash were on about during the London Calling sessions.
Which is this: taking every type of music they’d ever loved and cramming it into a single record.
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