Legacy Edition to include unreleased Clash tracks

The really rather exciting up coming Clash Legacy Edition collection will feature five previously unreleased tracks. The three disc collection will feature a remastered version of 1979's 'London Calling', a DVD about the making of that album and a rarities disk called 'The Vanilla Tapes' which features 21 rehearsal sessions which were recently discovered on a tape by Mick Jones.

Those sessions include three tracks which later morphed into different songs - 'Working and Waiting' which became 'Clampdown', 'Paul's Tune' which was a forerunner of 'The Guns of Brixton' and 'Up-Toon' which was developed into 'The Right Profile'. There is also a cover of Bob Dylan's 'The Man in Me' and an early version of the album's title track with different lyrics and song structure...

From: CMU.

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