En 76, suite aux émeutes entre la communauté noire et la police à Londres (London’s Notting Hill Carnival), le jeune Joe Strummer constate que les jeunes noirs balancent les briques sans sourciller et aimerait bien que les jeunes comme lui (blancs) fassent de même. Ca donnera le 1er single du Clash. Bande-son idéale pour jeter des briques.

White riot – I want to riot
White riot – a riot of my own
White riot – I want to riot
White riot – a riot of my own

Black people gotta lot a problems
But they don’t mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick

An’ everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
An’ nobody wants
To go to jail!

All the power’s in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it

Everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!

Are you taking over
Or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?