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, released on September 20, 1989. The album was well received by critics, but was not a commercial success. The majority of the album was recorded in

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in 1988 and 1989, as evident from the cover photography and design by Josh Cheuse. It was the first time Strummer had worked on his own musical project. In previous years he had worked with

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'' in 1986 and 1987. He also worked on the production of his former Clash partner Mick Jones' second album with the band

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'' that got Strummer into a well mental state to start working on his own material again. He got a group together which consisted of

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and Willie MacNeil. The backing band became known as

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. The first project the band worked on was for the film '' Permanent Record'' with

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which featured the songs "Trash City", "Baby the Trans", "Nothin' 'bout Nothin", "Nefertiti Rock", and the haunting instrumental "Theme from Permanent Record". In 2008 the album was re-released although it was not remastered and the version was very bare bones featuring no liner notes and basically a

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version of the album.

Track listing

Personnel

*Joe Strummer - vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, percussion *

- lead guitar, Spanish guitar, organ, banjo, lyre, vocals *

- drums (tracks 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12) *Willie McNeil - drums (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14) with: *Del Zamora, Dick Rude, Rudy Fernandez - male voice trio ;Technical *Mark Stebbeds - recording, mixing *Josh Cheuse - cover photography, art direction

Bibliography

References

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