Capital Radio One
| "Capital Radio" | |
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| Song by The Clash from the album Capital Radio E.P. | |
| Released | 9 April 1977 (UK) |
| Recorded | 10 February–27 February 1977, CBS Studios, London |
| Genre | Punk rock |
| Length | 2:09 |
| Label | Neat |
| Writer(s) | Joe Strummer and Mick Jones |
| Producer(s) | Mickey Foote |
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| EP by The Clash | ||||
| Released | 9 April 1977 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | 10 February–27 February 1977, CBS Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 14:36 | |||
| Label | Neat | |||
| Producer | Mickey Foote | |||
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| "Capital Radio Two" | |||||||
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| Song by The Clash from the album The Cost of Living | |||||||
| Released | 11 May 1979 | ||||||
| Recorded | 1979 | ||||||
| Genre | Punk rock | ||||||
| Length | 4:05 | ||||||
| Label | CBS | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Joe Strummer and Mick Jones | ||||||
| Producer(s) | Bill Price | ||||||
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Capital Radio is a song and an extended play by the English punk rock band The Clash. The original 2:07-2:09 song has been included as "Capital Radio" or "Capital Radio One" on the Capital Radio EP (1977), Black Market Clash (1980), The Story of the Clash, Volume 1 (1988), Clash on Broadway (1991), From Here to Eternity: Live (1999), The Essential Clash (2003), and Singles Box (2006).
Lyrically, the song is an attack on the music policy of what was (at the time) London's only legal commercial music radio station, which played mainstream chart hits and little if any punk. It mentions the station's then-Head of Music, Aiden Day - "He picks all the hits they play/to keep you in your place all day".
They're even worse because they had the chance, coming right into the heart of London and sitting in that tower right on top of everything. But they've completely blown it. I'd like to throttle Aiden Day. He thinks he's the self appointed Minister of Public Enlightenment. We've just written a new song called Capital Radio and a line in it goes "listen to the tunes of the Dr Goebbels Show". They say "Capital Radio in tune with London". Yeah, yeah, yeah! They're in tune with Hampstead. They're not in tune with us at all. I hate them. What they could have done compared to what they have done is abhorrent. They could have made it so good that everywhere you went you took your transistor radio — you know, how it used to be when I was at school. I'd have one in my pocket all the time or by my ear'ole flicking it between stations. If you didn’t like one record you'd flick to another station and then back again. It was amazing. They could have made the whole capital buzz. Instead Capital Radio has just turned their back on the whole youth of the city.
The song ends with a parody of one of Capital's actual jingles of the period; the band replaces the lyric "in tune with London" with "in tune with nothing". The parody is heightened by the use of a variation on the ending riff from 'I'm only dreaming' by the Small Faces.
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