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THE CLASH NEW YORK LIVE ALBUM TO BE RELEASED

A new live album recorded on The Clash's US tour with The Who in 1982 is to finally be released as a live album on October 6.

The Clash 'Live at Shea Stadium’ was recorded by Glyn Jones on the band's second night (October 13) at the stadium, opening for The Who on their farewell tour of America.

The recording of the show, previously unreleased, was apparently found by the late Joe Strummer whilst packing for a move.

A new officially authorised autobiography The Clash by The Clash, the story of the band in their own words, is also to be unveiled on October 3.

Compiled from extensive interviews with Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon originally recorded for the documentary Westway to The World, the book will be available through Atlantic Publishing.

Talking about the Shea Stadium show, Strummer said: "We played Shea Stadium with The Who and it was fun to play Career Opportunities in a place like that, when six years earlier we’d written it in Camden Town" whilst Simonon recalled hanging out with The Who.

He said: "During the Shea Stadium gig and other dates of that tour, Pete Townshend would come into our dressing room and we’d have a game of football. At Shea he said come back to our dressing room, so we did and there was (Roger) Daltrey and all these miserable gits sitting around who wouldn’t talk to us. So Pete (Townshend) came back to our dressing room with us."

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[bigred]Standard Edition[/bigred]

Kosmo Vinyl Introduction
London Calling
Police On My Back
Guns Of Brixton
Tommy Gun
The Magnificent Seven
Armagideon Time
The Magnificent Seven (Return)
Rock The Casbah
Train In Vain
Career Opportunities
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
English Civil War
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
I Fought The Law

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EB70UW/?tag=imwan-20

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[bigred]Deluxe Edition[/bigred]

This deluxe edition is a jewel-case size hard bound digi pak which includes a stunning 32-page booklet of backstage and onstage photos shot by Bob Gruen and Joe Stevens.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E7OO2S/?tag=imwan-20

I was at that show

I was there too. This is fantastic news.

It was speculated about that this was going to be released. This confirmation makes me smile. Any new Jones-Era Clash is definitely a good thing.

Here's the press release:

The Clash Live at Shea Stadium Details

08/08/2008

(Sony) Recorded at New York's Shea Stadium in 1982, Live at Shea Stadium – released on October 7th - captures the band at the peak of its powers and on devastating form. Bristling with energy and attitude, Live at Shea Stadium is destined to feature alongside James Brown at the Apollo, The Who at Leeds and Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison as one of the greatest live recordings of all time.

The Clash, opening for The Who on their farewell tour of the US, played two nights at the legendary Shea Stadium (12th & 13th Oct 1982). They had recently released the Combat Rock album, and the singles "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" were enjoying mass audiences via MTV and radio airplay. Despite being the support act, the New York Post reported "there were as many Clash fans on those nights as Who fans."

The Clash released their fifth album 'Combat Rock' prior to the US tour. The album contained the single 'Should I Stay or Should I Go', which received heavy airplay in the US. The following single, 'Rock the Casbah' was a Top 40 hit in the US, with heavy rotation on MTV. Original Clash drummer Terry Chimes, who appeared on the band's eponymously-titled debut album, plays on 'Live at Shea Stadium'.

Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets baseball team since its unveiling in 1964, has hosted some truly legendary shows. The Beatles were the first band to perform at the venue in 1965 and the success of that concert proved for the first time that stadiums could hold shows on such a large scale. Other acts that have appeared at Shea over the years include the Rolling Stones, The Police, Bruce Springsteen and Simon & Garfunkel. Sadly, the stadium has reached the end of its life and will be demolished around the time 'Live at Shea' is released.

'Live at Shea Stadium' track listing:
Kosmo Vinyl Introduction
London Calling
Police On My Back
Guns Of Brixton
Tommy Gun
The Magnificent Seven
Armagideon Time
The Magnificent Seven (return)
Rock The Casbah
Train In vain
Career Opportunities
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
English Civil War
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
I Fought The Law

'Live at Shea Stadium' will be available in deluxe ltd edition and standard CD formats.

Let's see what's special about the "deluxe limited edtion."

Track list looks great. I plan to pick this one up.

I just listened to the advance and it's mind blowing. If you're a Clash fan this is a must own!

My promo just arrived in yesterday's mail. I'm not a big fan of live recordings in general, but this is truly great.

Amazon has a link / description for the "deluxe limited edition."
(I'm not going to put the link up so it can in Imwan credit)

It's a hard-bound digi-pak case with 32 page photo booklet.

Thanks, Charles. Deluxe Edition link has now been added to the first post.

Thanks. Deluxe it will be for me!

Ditto.

On my Amazon wish list.

A trailer for the release

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcGTULs7nU[/youtube]

Any news on why the Deluxe version is currently unavailable at Amazon?

Best Buy is listing the "Deluxe Version" on it's website for $13.99, but something makes me think that is an error and they'd likely ship the standard version.

It was available when I ordered it a few weeks ago.

No idea. I had planned to place an order for the deluxe edition, along with several other items. Guess I'll pick it up from another source.

I think Best Buy has the prices reversed on their website. They show two listings for the cd, with the "Deluxe Edition" being the cheaper by six dollars. I agree that seems suspect - there's no telling which edition they would actually ship.

I don't know what's going on with Amazon, but I bought the deluxe edition yesterday.

This is a nice release. I hope the put out more complete concerts in the future.

Can someone post if they find the deluxe edition in the stores today?

I'm heading at noon today, hopefully it's out.

Amazon is showing that they have 8 copies of the deluxe edition available now, priced at $17.96.

Anyone find the Deluxe edition at Bestbuy? I'd hate to drive over there and it didn't come out.