![]() That was an astonishing political statement, 302.0 eventually was removed from the World Health Organisation directory in 1990. It’s printed on the EP sleeve, on the side. It was Paul’s job to get code numbers for the doctors, and he found the classification, and told Tom Robinson about 302.0. He discovered that because of Paul Furness, who had set up Leeds Rock Against Racism and worked in the medical records department at Leeds Royal Infirmary. In the introduction, Tom says the World Health Organisation have categorised being Gay as a disease, 302.0. It’s a hugely important and equally inflammatory song. They are not really a Punk band, but Tom in his sort of school uniform, Roger Huddle’s Black Power fist logo behind them, plus Danny Kustow’s kind of Punk guitar, brings an importance to this song. ![]() TRB headlined the Rock Against Racism carnival in Victoria Park by dint of their hit ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’, so they had a greater status than The Clash at that point. Tom Robinson Band ‘Glad To Be Gay’ (1978) And the other person there was Ranking Roger.Ģ. I thought it was very exciting and I was taken by the colours, and the look of the Skinheads. There are two people that were in that melee one is me, as a little boy who has inadvertently been driven into the melee by his parents. There’s also footage of a National Front rally outside Digbeth Civic Hall that same day, which turns into a confrontation between the Anti-Nazi League, Rock Against Racism and the police. There’s a vibrancy to that performance, not only in the close-up of the camera work, which is right on Strummer’s face, but when he moves out of shot the camera remains on the microphone and you’re left waiting for him to come back into shot. Watch the footage of them doing this in Birmingham in 1978 I think it’s at Barbarella’s. Then just before the guitar solo it breaks from the Reggae rhythm and gives way to more typical Clash sounding chugging guitars. I love the way you get the kind of On/Off Reggae beat of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones’ guitars. The Clash: Their 1977 debut album (CBS Records)
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