The Clash - The Magnificent Seven

Original Release Date

1981

Release Information

UK 7" 1981 (CBS - CBS A1133)

1 The Magnificent Seven 3:40
2 The Magnificent Dance 3:33

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UK 12" 1981 (CBS - CBS A 12 1133)

1 The Magnificent Seven 4:22
2 The Magnificent Dance 5:29

Chart Placings

UK Chart Hit: 34, 5 wks

Credits

7"/12":

Production: (1 & 2) The Clash
Re-mixed by Pepe Unidos

Additional Credits

Joe Strummer - lead and backing vocals, electric piano
Mick Jones - lead guitars, backing vocals, sound effects
Norman Watt-Roy - bass
Topper Headon - drums, backing vocals
Recorded April 1980, Electric Lady Studios, New York City

Reviews & Opinions

FRED DELLAR, SMASH HITS, APRIL 16 -29, 1981: The working man's 9 to 5 (or rather 8 to 5) - clocking in, knocking out, bussing home, dossing down - brought to you in startling Clash-O-Scope. Funky-butt bass, rat-a-tat lyrics, heavy handclaps and a liberal scattering of electric piano chords add up to a Blockheads-style boogaloo of some potency.

PUNKY GIBBON: An edited version of the Sandinsita! track: good stuff in a rap stylee, but shortening it doesn't improve it in any way. Fairly boring instrumental remix on the B-Side. The 12" has two exclusive (at the time) versions of the same songs. The A-Side is 4:22 (i.e. in terms of length, halfway between the single and album versions), the flip 5:30 or so.

Additional Notes

No musicians are credited in the single, although Norman Watt-Roy, not Paul Simonon, certainly played bass.

Images

UK 7" 1981 (CBS - CBS A1133). Click here for more

UK 12" 1981 (CBS - CBS A 12 1133). Courtesy of Moonman Images. Click here for more