Shane MacGowan -The Pogues

White Riot

All the Clash singles come down to ‘White Riot’. It was the first single (it’s got ‘1977’ on the B-side) and I’ll always remember the day I bought it, which was the day it came out. It was March ’77 and you could really see that the party was already over and we were rushing headlong towards the summer of hate. ‘White Riot’ and ‘1977’ really gave off that feeling of paranoia, and the Clash were doing their up-against-the-wall stance in their stencilled suits. It had a great picture sleeve.

It was all about speed, staying out in sexually deviant or heavy-duty black nightclubs and massive creativity. It was also a piss-take of how pathetic white people are at standing up for their rights and having fun, whereas black people know how to do both. Both the Clash and the Pistols were masters of decadence. The essential theme behind punk wasn’t hate; it was complete contempt for the idea of the right to work or the need to do anything. It wasn’t ignorance, it was simply: ‘Fuck it, I don’t care. I just wanna have fun.’ And ‘White Riot’ says it all.

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