« Reply #47 on: September 26, 2008, 10:36:32 AM »
BOS I fought the law - 1979? Didn't it come out in 1977?
But maybe 79 was when it was on the air.
No, I definitely heard this way before 1979, and I was living in St. Louis* at the time. But I love the fact that one of the Crickets wrote the song.
Originally recorded by the Bobby Fuller Four, the Clash's version of "I Fought the Law" is perhaps the best-known version of Sonny Curtis' (one of Buddy Holly's Crickets) rock & roll classic. The song appeared on the band's U.S. debut, The Clash (1977); songwriter Curtis ( "Not Fade Away") says the version is, "one of my favorites." The band got the idea to record the song while they were working on their second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope; they heard it on the recording-studio jukebox. *which is to say that I was highly unlikely to be exposed to this before the rest of the world.
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