Editing London Calling (section)

==Background==
On their second album ''[[Give 'Em Enough Rope]]'' (1978), the Clash had started to depart from the [[punk rock]] sound.<ref name="Sargeant"/> While touring the United States in 1979, they chose supporting acts such as rhythm and blues artists [[Bo Diddley]], [[Sam & Dave]], [[Lee Dorsey]], and [[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]], as well as [[neotraditional country]] artist [[Joe Ely]] and [[psychobilly|punk rockabilly]] band [[the Cramps]]. The Clash's growing fascination with [[rock and roll]] inspired their direction for ''London Calling''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-clash-mn0000075747|title=The Clash|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=9 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604093734/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-clash-mn0000075747|archive-date=4 June 2012|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

After recording ''Give 'Em Enough Rope'', the Clash separated from their manager [[Bernard Rhodes]].<ref name="Gilbert212-213">Gilbert 2005, pp. 212–213.</ref> This meant they had to leave their rehearsal studio in [[Camden Town]]. Tour manager Johnny Green and drum roadie Baker found a new place to rehearse, Vanilla Studios, in the back of a garage in [[Pimlico]].<ref>Green 2003, p. 156.</ref><ref name="uncut58">Sweeting, Adam. "Death or Glory". ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''. October 2004. p. 58.</ref><ref>Gray 2010, p. 88.</ref>

The Clash arrived at Vanilla in May 1979 with no new songs prepared for their third album.<ref>Gray 2010, pp. 89, 91.</ref> Main songwriters [[Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)|Mick Jones]] and [[Joe Strummer]] had experienced a period of [[writer's block]] and had not written a new song in over a year; their recently released ''[[The Cost of Living (EP)|Cost of Living]]'' EP featured a cover song and three other songs that had all been written over a year earlier.<ref>Gray 2010, p. 91.</ref>