Even before The Clash began recording they'd courted disaster when their roadie left the demo tapes for the album on a train station. London Calling: charting Britain's winter of discontent
In the gloom of a recording studio in London, Joe Strummer is playing a repeated riff on the piano, trying to nail down a new song he's working on.
For a moment only the piano can be heard until Stevens picks up a bottle of red wine and pours it across the keyboard and over Joe's hands.It's an odd way to make a record, but it's just part of the madness involved in the creation of one of rock's finest albums.Disaster strikes on a train It turns out the band had been rehearsing and writing songs at a rehearsal space in Pimlico that doubled as a car mechanics workshop.They'd recorded the new material on a reel-to-reel tape recorder over several weeks, taking breaks only to play five-a-side football at the local park.
When the time came to move studios, they entrusted roadie Johnny Green with the job of delivering them across town to producer Guy Stevens.
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