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Lot 263
The Clash: An Autographed Promo Pressing Of The Single Complete Control/The City Of The Dead And Related Items, 1970s,
24 May 2023, 12:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,304 inc. premium
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The Clash: An Autographed Promo Pressing Of The Single Complete Control/The City Of The Dead And Related Items,
1970s,
comprising: the 1977 single, S CBS 5664, the picture sleeve signed on the back in black ballpoint by Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones and Topper Headon, with an accompanying letter from Paul Simonon to the vendor, in ballpoint on the back of a sheet of Ladbroke Dragonara Hotels stationery, reading, ...here's our new single, and I got the rest of the group to sign it - your card is enclosed + sign (sic) as well...Paul - The CLASH; together with an Unemployment Benefit Attendance Card, aka a Dole Card, (the card referred to in Paul's letter), the back signed in black ballpoint by all members of the band and additionally by Roadent, the roadie, Joe Strummer inscribing it You Lazy Barstard (sic)
comprising: the 1977 single, S CBS 5664, the picture sleeve signed on the back in black ballpoint by Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones and Topper Headon, with an accompanying letter from Paul Simonon to the vendor, in ballpoint on the back of a sheet of Ladbroke Dragonara Hotels stationery, reading, ...here's our new single, and I got the rest of the group to sign it - your card is enclosed + sign (sic) as well...Paul - The CLASH; together with an Unemployment Benefit Attendance Card, aka a Dole Card, (the card referred to in Paul's letter), the back signed in black ballpoint by all members of the band and additionally by Roadent, the roadie, Joe Strummer inscribing it You Lazy Barstard (sic)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Clash was the vendor's favourite band at the time and he met them on a number of occasions, including the Glasgow Apollo concert with Richard Hell and The Voidoids on 25th October 1977. The vendor was backstage and talked to Paul Simonon for a while. Paul took the vendor's address and this led to him sending the promo single offered here. Earlier in the day the vendor had met The Voidoids' road manager and helped him obtain some drumskins from a local music shop; this resulted in the vendor being given a pass. The vendor's Dole Card was also signed this day.