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{{Infobox Song <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs --> |
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| Name =1977 |
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| Cover =WhiteRiot.jpg |
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| Type =Single B-side to "[[White Riot]]" |
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| Artist =[[The Clash]] |
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| Released ={{Start date|1977|3|18}} |
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| Format =7" vinyl |
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| Recorded =1977 |
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| Genre =[[Punk rock]] |
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| Length =1:39 |
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| Label =[[CBS Records|CBS]] <small>CBS 5058</small> |
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| Producer =[[Mickey Foote]] |
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"'''1977'''" was the B-side of seminal [[Punk rock|punk]] [[Band (music)|band]] [[The Clash|The Clash's]] first [[Single (music)|single]], [[White Riot]], released in [[1977]]. The song was most likely influenced by the [[reggae]] group [[Culture (band)|Culture's]] album [[Two Sevens Clash]], and [[Rastafarian]] predictions of impending doom on [[July 7]], [[1977]]. The song used imagery of [[Apocalypse]], unemployment, and riots. The chorus contains the line "''No [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]], [[Beatles]], or [[The Rolling Stones]] in 1977''", crowing the irrelevance of the old rock acts. The song ends with a count of years starting with 1977 and ending abruptly with 1984 with an inferred [[Orwellian]] [[dystopia|dystopian]] future. <ref>Gray, Marcus (1996). ''The Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash'' (pp. 187-188). New York: Henry Holt and Company.</ref> |
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