Seldom Seen: The Clash perform ‘Clash City Rockers’ on TV from 1978

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The Clash perform “Clash City Rockers” on the BBC’s Something Else, from January 1978.

The song is a bit of self-mythologizing from Messrs. Strummer and Jones, with nods to David Bowie, The Move, Prince Far I and Gary Glitter. Gary Glitter? What were they thinking?