I Fought the Law
song by Curtis
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Operation Just Cause
- In Operation Just Cause
…that were played were “I Fought the Law” by the Clash, “Panama” by Van Halen, “All I Want Is You” by U2, and “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” by Bruce Cockburn). Noriega was then transported to Miami, Florida, where he was tried, convicted of a raft of charges,…
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recording by the Clash
- In the Clash
…Fuller Four’s rockabilly classic “I Fought the Law” (its chorus: “I fought the law / And the law won”); a substitution of the words “the music business” or “capitalism” for “the law” hints at the perennial dilemma for the Clash. However, in its time the Clash pushed its contradictions…
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