Tommy Gun (song)

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"Tommy Gun"
Single by The Clash
from the album Give 'Em Enough Rope
B-side"1–2 Crush on You"
Released24 November 1978
Recorded1978
Genre
Length3:13
LabelCBS S CBS 6788
Songwriter(s)Joe Strummer and Mick Jones
Producer(s)Sandy Pearlman
The Clash singles chronology
"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"
(1978)
"Tommy Gun"
(1978)
"English Civil War"
(1979)
Music video
"Tommy Gun" (Official Video) at YouTube

"Tommy Gun" is a 1978 song by English punk rock band The Clash and is the leading single from their second studio album Give 'Em Enough Rope. It went to number 19 in the United Kingdom and didn't chart anywhere in the other countries chart.

Track listing[change | change source]

All tracks written by Joe Strummer/Mick Jones.

7" vinyl
  1. "Tommy Gun" – 3:18
  2. "1-2 Crush On You" – 2:59

References[change | change source]

  1. Cite error: The named reference SB was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  2. Wyman, Bill (11 October 2017). "All 139 the Clash Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best". Vulture. New York. Retrieved March 14, 2023. An interesting early pop-punk artifact however. Put out for some reason as the B-side of the "Tommy Gun" single in 1978, and later collected on Super Black Market Clash.