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This Weekend's Wildcard Rock the Casbah by The Clash. This is off of their 1982 album Combat Rock. This song was inspired by the ban on Western music in Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In the song, pilots who were instructed to bomb people listening to music would blast music on their cockpit radios instead. The citizens then started dancing to the music or in other words, Rock the Casbah. A casbah was a fortress in India for the local leader to live and a defense when a city was under attack.
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