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Straight to Hell by The Clash

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WEEK 18

It was in this week in 1975...

that the Vietnam war ended. One of its legacies was the unwanted "Amerasian" children fathered by American GIs, who were referenced in this polemical track. That is why Straight to Hell by The Clash is our single of the week.

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