{"id":3588148,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3588148/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-07T16:33:57-08:00","show":65315,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65315/?format=json","image_uri":"https://ia600104.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-efc61929-387e-42a9-8194-caccdca7012e/mbid-efc61929-387e-42a9-8194-caccdca7012e-1978576697_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://ia800104.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-efc61929-387e-42a9-8194-caccdca7012e/mbid-efc61929-387e-42a9-8194-caccdca7012e-1978576697_thumb250.jpg","song":"London Calling","track_id":"0e076756-5200-34a5-b108-e40a26c95482","recording_id":"8f7f788e-131e-406e-8276-84a0a9f04fa0","artist":"The Clash","artist_ids":["8f92558c-2baa-4758-8c38-615519e9deda"],"album":"London Calling","release_id":"985bd7aa-d0df-46b8-9582-4bdeb3b768b8","release_group_id":"68cd609c-112c-3240-b6e4-9daa51e1f0a7","labels":["CBS"],"label_ids":["b8d33bec-92cc-40d9-bd92-4eb089b401a9"],"release_date":"1979-12-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Released on this day in 1979!\n\nLondon Calling was a double album, but it wasn't supposed to be.\n\nThe band were angry that CBS had priced their previous EP, The Cost of Living at £1.49, and so in the interests of their fans they insisted that London Calling be a double LP.\n\nCBS refused, so the band tried a different tactic: how about a free single on a one-disc LP? CBS agreed, but didn't notice that this free single disc would play at 33rpm and contain eight songs - therefore making it up to a double album!\n\nIt then became nine when \"Train in Vain\" was tacked on to the end of the album after an NME single release fell through. \"Train\" arrived so late on that it isn't on the tracklisting on the album sleeve, and the only evidence of its existence is a stamp on the run-out groove and its presence on the end of side four.\n\nIn the end, London Calling was a 19-song double-LP retailing for the price of a single!  https://tinyurl.com/55a9jka9","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}