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The Clash - Velodromo Vigorelli, Milan May 21st 1981 (1981)

Track listing:
  1. Intro - 60 Seconds To What 2:36
  2. London Calling 3:29
  3. Safe European Home 3:06
  4. White Man In Hammersmith Palais 3:52
  5. Train In Vain 3:55
  6. Lightning Strikes 2:55
  7. Junco Partner 3:56
  8. The Guns Of Brixton 3:59
  9. This Is Radio Clash 4:18
  10. Complete Control 4:12
  11. Ivan Meets Gi Joe 5:31
  12. The Call Up 2:53
  13. The Leader 1:48
  14. Charlie Don't Surf 4:39
  15. The Magnificent Seven 4:55
  16. Bankrobber 4:35
  17. Wrong 'em Boyo 3:38
  18. Somebody Got Murdered 3:10
  19. Career Opportunities 2:23
  20. Clampdown 5:28
  21. One More Time 3:42
  22. Brand New Cadillac 2:03
  23. Armagideon Time 2:21
  24. Janie Jones 5:00
  25. I Fought The Law 2:29
  26. London's Burning 2:01
  27. Jimmy Jazz 3:39
  28. White Riot 2:56

Notes

Master cassette

Impossible Mission Tour

“Turn the lights off, turn the engine on and lets go to Saigon!”

Excellent quality audience recording from the master. The sound quality from this master recording is so good it could almost be from a soundboard source. There is a little distortion and a lack of pro-separation but that apart it has a hugely enjoyable sound.

The Clash played in Italy only a handful of times but when they did play, it was always more than a concert; it was an event. In June 1980 they played the now legendary free concerts for the PCI (Italian communist party) in Torino and in the stunning setting of the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. In May 1981 The Clash returned to Italy to play in Milan, San Remo and Firenze.

In Milan, from the evidence of this superb audience recording, The Clash gave a terrific performance, (especially in the second half of the concert). Indeed in terms of performance and sound quality this is very probably the best Impossible Mission Tour bootleg of a complete show.

The concert was certainly an event; 15,000 people were inside the stadium with a reported 5,000 more fighting with security to get in. The concert itself was in doubt up to the last minute when the authorities reluctantly gave permission.