{"id":59374,"date":"2024-03-31T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59374"},"modified":"2024-03-31T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:25:53","slug":"london-calling-joe-strummers-shortwave-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/london-calling-joe-strummers-shortwave-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling: Joe Strummer&#8217;s Shortwave Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59375\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bob Butterfield, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">London Calling by The Clash<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Readers may be interested in the shortwave influence and story behind the creation of the song &#8220;London Calling&#8221; written by Joe Strummer of the band The Clash from the 1979 double album of the same name. It is produced and narrated by the excellent YouTube creator The Professor of Rock..<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here&#8217;s the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-71HcdJuUxA.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-71HcdJuUxA.?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bob Butterfield, who writes: London Calling by The Clash Readers may be interested in the shortwave influence and story behind the creation of the song &#8220;London Calling&#8221; written by Joe Strummer of the band The Clash from the 1979 double album of the same name. It is produced and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[442,3,43],"tags":[3378,3383,3381],"class_list":["post-59374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-joe-strummer","tag-joe-strummers-london-calling","tag-the-clash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-frE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11276,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/joe-strummer-influenced-by-world-travel-and-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":59374,"position":0},"title":"Joe Strummer: influenced by world travel\u2013and shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"November 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Chris, writes: \"After reading your piece on Peter Gabriel it reminded me of Joe Strummer and the Clash and the Mescaleros... 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Take\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Van_Morrison_1972.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11293,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/wilcos-yankee-hotel-foxtrot-and-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":59374,"position":2},"title":"Wilco&#8217;s &#8220;Yankee Hotel Foxtrot&#8221; and shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"November 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"After posting our articles about Joe Strummer and Peter Gabriel, Mike Barraclough writes: \"Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is my favourite shortwave radio related album, I was a fan of the band anyway so when I read about the theme I was really looking forward to the album and was not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"YankeeHotelFoxtrot","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/YankeeHotelFoxtrot.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/YankeeHotelFoxtrot.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/YankeeHotelFoxtrot.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9256,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/another-solution-for-whole-house-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":59374,"position":3},"title":"Another solution for whole-house shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"London Shortwave posts the following on Twitter: Inspired by @SWLingDotCom's RaspberryPi post I put this together to listen to the radio in my shack around the house http:\/\/youtu.be\/vOX41wIS1Qk\u00a0 On YouTube, London Shortwave explains that much of his modern system was inspired by a drawing from a 1930s shortwave listening magazine.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;How To&quot;","block_context":{"text":"How To","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"WholeHouseShortwaveRadio","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11118,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/video-how-to-fight-radio-noise-in-urban-areas\/","url_meta":{"origin":59374,"position":4},"title":"Video: How to fight radio noise in urban areas","author":"Thomas","date":"October 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"London Shortwave, a regular contributor to the SWLing Post,\u00a0lives in London, England and copes with serious amounts of radio noise (QRM)\u00a0at his home. 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