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| Length = 3:43 | Label = | Writer = The Clash〔Topper Headon is said to have written the main piano riff, but he as well as the rest of the band are credited〕 | Producer = The Clash | Last single = "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (1982) | This single = "Rock the Casbah" (1982) | Next single = "Straight to Hell" (1982) | Misc = }} "Rock the Casbah" is a song by the English punk rock band The Clash, released in 1982. The song was released as the third single from their fifth album, ''Combat Rock''. It reached number eight on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in the US (their second and last top 40 and only top 10 single in the United States) and, along with the track "Mustapha Dance", it also reached number eight on the dance chart. It is the band's highest charting single worldwide. ==Origin== The song gives a fabulist account of a ban on rock music by the king being defied by the population, who proceed to "rock the casbah." The king orders jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignored the orders, and instead played rock music on their cockpit radios. It was inspired by the ban on Western music in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The song's lyrics feature various Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Sanskrit loan-words, such as sharif, bedouin, sheikh, kosher, rāga, muezzin, minaret, and casbah.〔. Londonsburning.org. Retrieved 9 July 2014.〕 According to the album notes in the box set ''The Clash on Broadway'', "Rock the Casbah" originated when the band's manager Bernie Rhodes, after hearing them record an inordinately long track for the album, asked them facetiously "''does everything have to be as long as this rāga?''" (referring to the Indian musical style known for its length and complexity). Joe Strummer later wrote the opening lines to the song: "''The King told the boogie-men 'you have to let that rāga drop''.'" The rest of the lyrics soon followed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800099/ )〕 The instrumental opening, which is the music to the song's chorus, was a tune that drummer Topper Headon had written on the piano some time earlier and had toyed with during rehearsals before being incorporated into the song. In the 2000 documentary ''Westway to the World'', Headon said he played drums, bass and piano on the record for the song. All that was left to record were the guitar parts and the vocals. However, in ''The Future Is Unwritten'' (a documentary on Strummer), he states that he was in the studio waiting for the rest of the band to come to record, got sick of waiting, so recorded the parts himself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rock the Casbah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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