Forty years on from the
London Calling album, we rate the best tracks by the genre-hopping punks
A historical artefact, not for the proto-punk
music, but because the lyrics epitomise the new wave’s perceived threat to the old guard. “No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones / In 1977,” sang Joe Strummer, hardly about to let his love of such pop greats get in the way of punk’s declaration of year zero.