The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Special Remix) b/w The Magnificent Dance (1981)

"The Magnificent Seven" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash. Released in 1981, it was the third single from the Clash's fourth album, Sandinista!. It reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was inspired by old school hip hop acts from New York City, like the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.^[4] Rap was still a new and emerging music genre at the time, and the band, especially Mick Jones, was very impressed with it, so much so that Jones took to carrying a boombox around and got the nickname "Whack Attack".

"The Magnificent Seven" was recorded in April 1980 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, built around a funky bass loop played by Norman Watt-Roy of the Blockheads. Joe Strummer wrote the words on the spot, a technique that was also used to create Sandinista!'s other rap track, "Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)". This white rap single is earlier than Blondie's "Rapture" by six months. Strummer said of the group's encounter with hip hop:

When we came to the U.S., Mick stumbled upon a music shop in Brooklyn that carried the music of Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, the Sugar Hill Gang...these groups were radically changing music and they changed everything for us.

Though it failed to chart in America, the song was a hit on underground and college radio. Music critic Jeff Chang wrote that in New York City, the song "had become an unlikely hit on the Black radio station, WBLS."

"The Magnificent Dance", released on 12 April 1981 by CBS in 12-inch single format, is the dance remix of "The Magnificent Seven". 

The maxi single was released in the UK featuring an edited version of "The Magnificent Seven" on side A, and in the U.S., where it was backed with the extended version of "The Cool Out". It is credited to "Pepe Unidos", a pseudonym for Strummer, Paul Simonon and manager Bernie Rhodes. "Pepe Unidos" also produced "The Cool Out", a remix of "The Call Up". 

This dance version "definitely capitalized on the funky groove of the original, adding in some very cool drumming."

In 2015, Pitchfork Media included the song on its "Early 80's Disco" playlist, saying "if they were bored with the USA in 1977, four years on, they were also bored with both punk and rock. Instead, they became infatuated with NYC street culture, from early hip-hop to post-disco. This dubbed-out disco remix of the lead track off of Sandinista! was a club hit and the record Larry Levan would use to fine tune the sound system at the Paradise Garage."

A - The Magnificent Seven (Special Remix)  (3:40)

        Written-By – Clash

        Remix – Pepe Unidos

B - The Magnificent Dance   (3:33)

       Written-By – Clash

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – CBS Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Records
• Copyright © – CBS Inc.
• Published By – Nineden Ltd.
• Pressed By – CBS, Haarlem – 01-1134

Credits

• Producer – The Clash
• Written-By – Clash

Taken from the album The Album "The Clash – Sandinista!" 1980 (CBS 66363) 

Notes

Released: 1981

Format:   Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo

Genre:  Post-punk, Rap Rock

Label:  CBS Records

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