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Complete Control is a song by The Clash, released as a 7" single and featured on the US release of their debut album. Image File history File links Completecontrolcover. ...
In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ...
The Clash was a successful British punk rock group that existed from 1976 to 1986. ...
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In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ...
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Punk Rock is an anti-establishment music movement that began about 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified by The Ramones,the Misfits, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
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Remote Control is a song by The Clash, featured on their debut album, and is a rant against oppression and conformity. ...
The Clash was a successful British punk rock group that existed from 1976 to 1986. ...
In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ...
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The song is often cited as one of punk's greatest singles, and is a fiery polemic on record companies, managers and the state of punk music itself, the motivation for the song being the band's label CBS Records, releasing Remote Control without bothering to ask them, something that infuriated the group. The song also refers to managers of the time who sought to control their groups - Bernie Rhodes (of The Clash) and Malcolm McLaren (the Sex Pistols) - indeed, the song's very title is derived from this theme: Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...
Remote Control is a song by The Clash, featured on their debut album, and is a rant against oppression and conformity. ...
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- "Bernie [Rhodes] had a meeting in The Ship in Soho after the Anarchy Tour. He said he wanted complete control...I came out of the club with Paul [Simonon] collapsing on the pavement in hysterics at those words." — Joe Strummer, 1991.
The track also includes allusions to the band's run-ins with the police, their practice of letting fans into gigs through the back door or window for free and a punk idealism seemingly crushed by the corporate reality they had become part of and the betrayal and anger they felt. The overriding message of the song can be recognised in this couplet from the song: John Graham Mellor (August 21, 1952 – December 22, 2002) better known as Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist and lead singer of punk rock band The Clash, and later The Mescaleros. ...
- "They said, we'd be artistically free/When we signed that bit of paper."
This message was scorned by some critics as naïveté on the part of the band - legendary DJ John Peel was one of those, suggesting that the group must have realised CBS were not 'a foundation for the arts', while others were strong in their support of the single, for example: John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ...
- "Instead of a piece of cynicism, Complete Control becomes a hymn to Punk autonomy at its moment of eclipse." — Jon Savage.
The track was recorded at Sarm East Studios in Whitechapel, engineered by Mickey Foote and produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry (who also produced Police and Thieves for the band), in London producing for Bob Marley & the Wailers at the time. Perry's contribution to the track, however, was toned down - the band went back and fiddled with the song themselves to bring the guitars out and played down the echo Perry had dropped on it. The song was also Topper Headon's first recording with the band, following the departure of Terry Chimes. Jon Savage (born 1953) is a self-styled cultural commentator and music journalist, best known for his award winning history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, Englands Dreaming (1991). ...
Whitechapel is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
Lee Scratch Perry Lee Scratch Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry March 20, 1936) is one of the most influential people in the development of reggae and dub music in Jamaica. ...
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Nicholas Bower Headon (born May 30, 1955), better known as Topper Headon, was the drummer for the British punk rock band The Clash. ...
Chimes on stage drumming with The Clash at the 100 Club Punk Festival Terry Chimes, a. ...
Complete Control reached number 28 in the singles chart, making it The Clash's first Top 30 release.
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