Rock The Casbah

I found myself listening to The Clash again recently, and I had a few questions about the song "Rock the Casbah," so I turned to Google, which in turn led me to Wikipedia.

Turns out there are a number of interesting things about this song, so I thought I would share the video and some of the lyrics with you. According to Wikipedia:

The song was inspired by the banning of rock music in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. The song gives a fictitious account of the ban being defied by the population who proceed to "rock the casbah", causing the King to order jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignore the orders, and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios.

Who would have thought The Clash could be so intellectual and culturally sensitive? Here's the video, courtesy of the (soon to be?) $1.6 billion YouTube:

Also check out the lyrics, partially excerpted below:

Now the king told the boogie men
"You have to let that raga drop"
The oil down the desert way
Has been shaken to the top

The sheik, he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a-standing
On the radiator grille

Sharif don't like it
Rocking the casbah
Rock the casbah
Sharif don't like it
Rocking the casbah
Rock the casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound

But the Bedouin, they brought out the electric camel drum
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the sharif cleared the square
They began to wail [...]