{"id":41025,"date":"2019-09-21T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41025"},"modified":"2018-09-20T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T03:40:27","slug":"pennie-smith-and-the-clash-40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/pennie-smith-and-the-clash-40-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennie Smith and the Clash, 40 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punk-rock legends The Clash played <a href=\"https:\/\/georgehahn.com\/the-clash-takes-the-palladium-in-nyc-1979\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Palladium in New York City on Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, 1979<\/a>. The second night &#8212; which was 40 years ago today &#8212; was the show during which Paul Simonon smashed his bass guitar.\u00a0 Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapgalleries.com\/portfolio-items\/pennie-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennie Smith<\/a>&#8216;s shot of that moment became the cover art of The Clash&#8217;s <em>London Calling<\/em> album, released in December of that year.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_41026\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/album\/london-calling\/684811762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41026\" class=\"wp-image-41026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/clash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/clash.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/clash-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/clash-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listen to London Calling.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I didn&#8217;t know until last year that this iconic image was captured by a female photographer, so I just want to give a shout-out to Pennie Smith.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='PBMQHt62SkhXj2_WTayt1Q' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/830847128' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'PBMQHt62SkhXj2_WTayt1Q',sig:'z8WyYvxuIw_doRr6E9tFqz7hVIOpyG0cOZG5bpKfVdU=',w:'594px',h:'387px',items:'830847128',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I never got to see The Clash in concert. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/12322-live-at-shea-stadium\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I missed them opening for the Who in 1982<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/throwback-thursday-music-the-who-and-joan-jett\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">something I remained bitter about for over 30 years.<\/a>. I did see guitarist Mick Jones&#8217;s next group, Big Audio Dynamite, in 1986 or 1987 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/musical-interlude-eminem-at-g-shock-30th-anniversary-party\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and then again in 2011<\/a>). That &#8217;80s Big Audio Dynamite show deserves its own post one of these days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punk-rock legends The Clash played the Palladium in New York City on Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, 1979. The second night &#8212; which was 40 years ago today &#8212; was the show during which Paul Simonon smashed his bass guitar.\u00a0 Photographer Pennie Smith&#8216;s shot of that moment became the cover art of The Clash&#8217;s London&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/pennie-smith-and-the-clash-40-years-ago-today\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[726,86],"tags":[1658,1657],"class_list":{"0":"post-41025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art-entertainment","8":"category-movies","9":"tag-pennie-smith","10":"tag-the-clash","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41028,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025\/revisions\/41028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}