How Can I Understand The Flies

Artist: The Clash

First Release: unreleased

Length:

Vocals: Joe Strummer

Themes:

Additional Information:

• correct title of the song confirmed by Joe Strummer: "We'd like to perform a summer narrative entitled How Can I Understand The Flies."
• in a 1978 interview Strummer called the song Flies
• mistitled as 'I Can't Understand the Flies' 'I Don't Understand the Flies' or 'For the Flies' on bootlegs

• written during the initial rehearsals June-August 1976
• performed at the band's very first public London gig in August 1976
• dropped from the set after drummer Terry Chimes left the band in November 1976
• Joe Strummer: "[The song] was about all those flies in the basement of Orsett Terrace." (Strummer's flat in 1976)

References:

How Can I Understand The Flies
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