Clash - Police on My Back

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"Police on My Back" is a 1967 song originally released by The Equals from their second studio album Explosion. In 1980, the song was covered by The Clash.

"Police on My Back" was written by Eddy Grant and recorded by his band The Equals for their second studio album Explosion in December 1967.

In 1980, the Clash recorded a cover version of the song for their album Sandinista!, and turned "the mid-paced soul-pop song into a charged-up, full-powered rocker". Their version featured guitarist Mick Jones on lead vocals. Their version of the song was only released in Australia, and was described as a "punk anthem at a time of political and social repression", and as their "most full-throated rock song since I Fought The Law."The song was also covered by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day in 2020, during the coronavirus lockdown.The song was described as being: "an expression of Jamaican rude boy culture". The song has been covered a number of times over the years, including Zebda in 2003, Asian Dub Foundation, Lethal Bizzle in 2007, and more recently, Culture Abuse in 2018.

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