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the version of the clash is better
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I live in Kentish Town, north London, like Eddy did when he was young & in the Equals. Acland Burghley, the school he went to is 200 yards from my front door.I n the '60s he had his hair dyed white as part of the Equals. Eddie says he went to the barber's in Kentish Town to ask for this and the barber replied "Don't be a cunt." - arf!!!. Great song, like most he wrote.
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FEEL THE POP POWER OF THE '60S!
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@Hipdudester Yeah, i had never heard of them...I mean ya, i heard of Eddy Grant but not The Equals. Eddy and Peter Tosh are 2 of my alltime favorites
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5 people got busted
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Nice to hear Eddy Grant in songs when he was with the equals
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I've been looking for the original version of this song. The Clash version is epic, but I wanted to hear the original. Thank you!!
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@strummer77clash - That song was recorded in mono. Stereo record first emerged in the 1950s, but the records of many popular songs and groups such as The Who were still produced in mono until well into the late 1960s.
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I'd never heard of this band before. This song reminds me greatly of British bands on the Two Tone label in the late 1970s - Madness, The Specials and The Beat (The English Beat, in the US), among others. Most of the bands on that label were "mixed" (except Madness who were all white) and played a combined rock/ska/reggae style.
No doubt those groups were as influenced by The Equals as The Clash were.
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Glad to see Eddie had a lil game b4 E-ave........
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I think both this version and The Clash version are great, I mean it's not like one is better than the other, they are both great in different ways. I think for me it really depends on my mood. Peace everybody
TheHeadOfDavid 2 years ago 7
I have for years loved the Clash cover of this classic, but I really dig this original!
bartonim 1 year ago 6