The Clash

Following the album The Clash went in early January 1980 in a long tour of Britain, entitled «Sixteen Tons». Concerts opened Mikey Dred 25-year-old Jamaican musician and DJ. Dred initially treated with suspicion on the proposal to work with a white punk group, about which he knew nothing, but after repeated invitations, decided to come to London, incidentally wishing to promote their new album. The tour revealed a split among the British fans of The Clash: a simple punk music were alien to the group experiments, and DJ sets Mikey Dred were frank irritation. Nevertheless, the concerts were held with the full house. «It was frightening, - said unused to aggressive public Dred. - You saw that a hurricane does to the island in the Caribbean? - So also look after the halls of The Clash ». A small tour with Dred also went to United States (March) and Europe (May). During a tour of Britain in early February, a group with Mikey Dred recorded music inspired ska single «Bankrobber», released in August 1980 and became one of the most successful of the group (12 th place in the hit parade). At the end of the tour in America, invited the Dred The Clash in his studio in Jamaica - this time a group began working on material for a new album, which agreed to be done in the style of dub. However, in Jamaica, the musicians remained short because of locally specific relationships between the indigenous black people and white foreigners, the more famous (on the group demanded money, local groups and stay on the island became more and more insecure).