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THE CLASH Released Their Hip-Rock-Hop Single ‘THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ Today 45 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

10 April 2026

Iconic rock punks THE CLASH released their single
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN on 10 April 1981, today
45 years ago.

It featured on their triple album Sandinista!

The song was inspired by old school hip hop acts from New York City, like
the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. Rap was still a
new and emerging music genre at the time, and the band, especially Mick
Jones, was very impressed with it, so much so that Jones took to carrying a
boombox around and got the nickname “Whack Attack“.

It peaked at #34 in the UK Charts.

“You lot! What?
Don’t stop, give it all you got
You lot! What?
Don’t stop, yeah!

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THE CLASH Released Triple Album ‘SANDINISTA!’ 45 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

12 December 2025

Punk icons THE CLASH released their 4th LP, a triple one, called
SANDINISTA! today 45 years ago, on 12 December 1980.

#19 in the UK, #24 in the US, #3 in Canada

The longplayer(s) crossed various genres including funk, reggae, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, disco, and rap. For the first time, the band’s songs were credited to The Clash as a group, rather than to Joe Strummer and Mick Jones.

The band agreed to a decrease in album royalties
in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.

Rolling Stone said: “The Clash drop the big one.
To hell with Clash style, there’s a world out there.”

Mick Jones: “I always saw it as a record for people who were, like, on oil rigs.
Or Arctic stations. People that weren’t able to get to the record shops regularly.”

Joe Strummer: “It was triply outrageous”.

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