{"id":3746,"date":"2011-04-08T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2011-04-08T11:56:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:56:03","slug":"brixton-riots-30-years-on-the-clash-the-guns-of-brixton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-riots-30-years-on-the-clash-the-guns-of-brixton\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton riots 30 years on: The Clash &#8216;The Guns of Brixton&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"465\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qgfdUzflEnw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years after the Brixton riot, The Clash&#8217;s &#8220;Guns of Brixton&#8221; anthem pre-dates the uprising (the song was released in 1979) but perfectly captures the growing mood of discontent and anger on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The Guns of Brixton was written and sung by south London bassist Paul Simonon (in the video he&#8217;s playing guitar as he didn&#8217;t like playing bass and singing at\ufeff the same time).<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 10th April 2011, there is an event in central Brixton marking the 30th anniversary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-riot-30-years-on-windrush-square-event-sun-10th-april-2011\/\">Find out more and see footage from the uprising here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years after the Brixton riot, The Clash&#8217;s &#8220;Guns of Brixton&#8221; anthem pre-dates the uprising (the song was released in 1979) but perfectly captures the growing mood of discontent and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1191,19],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","tag-bands","tag-brixton","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Yq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}