#London Calling Album Art Full Elvis Points

Back cover left: Clash at Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, Texas. Photos: Front cover: New York Palladium 21.9.79. First release/pressing came with two inserts (28cm x 28cm). 'Train In Vain' is only listed in etching on side 4, it is not listed on the label/sleeve. Recorded at Wessex Studios, Winter 79.

London’s Only Plaque To ElvisTHE CLASH LONDON Calling Album Cover Poster 24 X 36 - 13.60. He’s been up there for about half a decade, playing air guitar since he lost his instrument a couple of years back. Surmounting it all is this life-size Elvis. It’s a bric-a-brack shack of old furniture, vintage signs and other discarded wonders. One of the many, many peculiarities to be found in and around Burgess Park is the “Steptoes and Sons” architectural rescue shop on Southampton Way.

OK, that heading’s possibly, ever so slightly a bit misleading, but I reckon this pavement stone on Fleet Street is the only memorial in London to mention Elvis. Little known fact about the London Calling album cover-the date of the bass smash photo (9/21/79. Finding album art that captured the genre-pushing ambition of To Pimp A Butterfly was a tall. The directly printed acrylic replaces the traditional framed paper print with a printed matt board (for same effect) with the added advantage of a sharp smooth finish that. Latex ink directly to the surface of an acrylic glass facing with a protective backing applied to ensure a long lasting artwork.

It features three well known kings, each rocking the mic. Formed in 1976, The Clash was on the first wave of British punk, combining elements of reggae, funk, ska, and rockabilly.I can’t help falling in love with the hanging sign at West Kensington’s Famous Three Kings pub. London Calling is the third studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. London Calling Album Art Design. West London TrilogyProduct Description. The plaque shows one of that paper’s more startling headlines.

A Little More Pub Actionloonyluna97 > Album Cover Art > London Calling - The Clash. The sign has now left the building, sadly. It was among London’s best pub signs, until the place was all shook up a few years ago. The Three Kings pub in Clerkenwell once sported a similar sign, with King Kong replacing Charlie, and Elvis in a rhinestone jumpsuit. But front and centre is our main man Elvis, throwing his best 1950’s hipshaking pose. On the right is, of course, Henry VIII, who was indeed musically gifted and may have penned ‘Greensleeves’.

The Elvis Barber at 70 Commercial Street could be found on the, ahem, City fringe until recently. Blowdrying In (White)Chapel Image via Google Street ViewThis one, you can’t visit any more. He seems to have been barred. At least I think it’s Elvis. If you seek out the wonderful King Charles I pub in King’s Cross, you’ll find this delicious stained glass Elvis in one of the windows. The beheaded English king has yet another connection with Elvis.

London Calling Album Art Full Elvis Points

Marley Way completes an unlikely supergroup. It’s Down At The End Of Lonely Street Image Google MapsActually, Elvis Road is down at the end of Lennon Road, for this commemorative street in Willesden Green is one of a cluster named after music icons. Oh, and full Elvis points if you can fathom the slightly desperate pun in this section’s title. Whether the business just went bust, or the Presley Estate clamped down on unauthorised use of his name, a fool such as I couldn’t say. Elvis Barber seems to have only lasted for a few months in 2019 before changing to the more prosaic City Barbers.

Yet they are also similar in many ways. The two albums can be seen as book ends to the golden era of rock music, or as the yin and yang of popular taste. Both feature the same green and pink lettering, but while Elvis plays his guitar, Paul Simonon is about to smash his bass.

Today’s rebels are tomorrow’s models of establishment.*Footnote: Elvis Presley never officially visited London, though rumours persist that he took a secret car journey around the capital in 1958, with Tommy Steele as his tour guide. Likewise, the Clash started out as an edgy punk band, yet their London Calling album cover found its way onto a Royal Mail stamp in 2010. Within years, his music was regarded as safe and old fashioned.