"Charlie Don't Surf" is a song from The Clash's 1980 album Sandinista!. The song and the whole album were recorded in London, Manchester, Jamaica and New York. It was produced by the band, recorded and mixed by Bill Price, and engineered by Jeremy Green at Wessex Sound Studios, J. P. Nicholson at Electric Lady Studios, Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie at Channel One Studios, and Bill Price at Pluto and Power Station Studios.
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| - "Charlie Don't Surf" is a song from The Clash's 1980 album Sandinista!. The song and the whole album were recorded in London, Manchester, Jamaica and New York. It was produced by the band, recorded and mixed by Bill Price, and engineered by Jeremy Green at Wessex Sound Studios, J. P. Nicholson at Electric Lady Studios, Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie at Channel One Studios, and Bill Price at Pluto and Power Station Studios.
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| - Pluto Studios, Manchester, February 1980, The Power Station, New York City, March 1980, Electric Lady Studios, New York City, March–April 1980, Channel One Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, May 1980, Wessex Studios, London, August 1980
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| - "Charlie Don't Surf" is a song from The Clash's 1980 album Sandinista!. The song and the whole album were recorded in London, Manchester, Jamaica and New York. It was produced by the band, recorded and mixed by Bill Price, and engineered by Jeremy Green at Wessex Sound Studios, J. P. Nicholson at Electric Lady Studios, Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie at Channel One Studios, and Bill Price at Pluto and Power Station Studios. The song, that is claimed to rank among the band's best, builds on a revolutionary wave of Paul Simonon's bass. It is a critical protest song based on the famous sentence from the film Apocalypse Now. A line in "Charlie Don't Surf" “satellites will make space burn” anticipated Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative by two and a half years. It is a rather obscure slow-burner, a haunting protest song, equal parts lounge, surf, and '50s ballad. The song tries to give voice to the people of the World. It is an anti-war, anti-racism song with a great political impact as evidenced in lines such as “Everybody wants to rule the world/Must be something we get from birth”, “The reign of the super powers must be over/So many armies can't free the earth” and “We've been told to keep the strangers out/We don't like them starting to hang around/We don't like them all over town/Across the world we're gonna blow 'em down.”. The song features on some unofficial albums. A live version of the song recorded on June 4, 1981 at Bond's Casino, New York City, features on the 2000 live bootleg Live at Bond's Casino. The live version recorded in Tokyo on 1982 features on Yellow Riot: Tokyo 1982, a 1992 CD released by Genuine Pig. Another live performance of the song features on Pier Pressure, a compilation, bootleg CD released by Tendolar that collects live materials and demo versions from 1977 to February 1982. The song also features on The Clash: Westway to the World, a 2000 documentary film about the British punk rock band The Clash, directed by Don Letts. The American surf rock band Pollo Del Mar frequently covers the song during live sets. The San Francisco, California based band also recorded a cover version on Charlie Does Surf (A Tribute To The Clash), a 2004 tribute album recorded by various artists and released by Rickshaw Records. The Crunchies delivered a great version of "Charlie Don't Surf" that features on the 2005 tribute album, The Sandinista Project!. A major film retrospective has been assembled to honour and appreciate Joe Strummer's contribution to the screen. Filmstock Film Festival in association with Strummerville presented a unique season of films entitled Charlie Don't Surf at the Curzon Soho Cinema, London between the 8th and 11th of December 2005. Two bands, one from Bristol and another from Brussels, Belgium took their name from the song. In 2007, the Japanese fashion group Bounty Hunter released Charlie Don't Surf reversible tee where one side of the tee reveals a graphic inspired by the song. Back in the U.S.A., a best-selling T-shirt combines Charlie Manson, the Clash, and Apocalypse Now with Manson's face and the classic line "Charlie Don't Surf".
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