Capital Radio is a song and an extended play by the English punk rock band the Clash.
Lyrically, the song is an attack on the music policy of what was (at the time) London's only legal commercial music radio station, which played sophisticated pop, some mainstream chart hits but little punk, though they did playlist The Jam's first single 'In The City', while the Sex Pistols' 'Pretty Vacant' made the Top 3 of their 'Capital Countdown' playlist.
We've just written a new song called Capital Radio and a line in it goes "listen to the tunes of the Dr Goebbels Show".
[2] Instead, it was given away free to readers who sent off a coupon printed in the NME, plus the red sticker found on the band's debut studio album The Clash (1977).
The interview with the band was conducted by the NME's writer Tony Parsons and was recorded during a trip on a London Underground train.
All tracks are written by Joe Strummer and Mick JonesSide two By late 1978 the original EP had become very rare in the UK, and started to be sold for high prices by collectors and some unscrupulous record shops.