No Rock And Roll Fun

LONDON RECALLING: Some "recently rediscovered" demo tapes from the recording sessions are forming the heart of the otherwise not really required reissuing of The Clash's London Calling. Included amongst the tapes, which turned up in Mick Jones' "storage facility" (I'm not making this up), are some songs which didn't survive the brutal cull of forming the tracklisting - presumably because even in a rough, demo form, they were deemed to be to weak to be worth perservering with. Why they've suddenly gotten any better since 1979 is anyone's guess. There's also going to be a DVD, as there has to be these days. It's what Joe would have wanted. Or, at least, could have been persuaded into signing up for.