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Personnel: Joe Strummer (lead and backing vocals, guitar); Mick Jones (guitar, backing and lead vocals); Paul Simonon (bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on The Crooked Beat and Look Here); Topper Headon (drums, lead vocals on Ivan Meets G.I. Joe and Look Here); Tymon Dogg (credited as 'Timon Dogg') (vocals & violin on Lose This Skin, violin on Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice), Something About England, Mensforth Hill, Junco Partner and The Equaliser, keyboard on Sound of the Sinners); Mickey Gallagher (Blockheads) (keyboards); Norman Watt-Roy (Blockheads) (bass guitar on The Magnificent Seven); Ellen Foley (co-lead vocal on Hitsville U.K.); Davey Payne (Blockheads) (saxophone on Ivan Meets G.I. Joe, Something About England, The Crooked Beat, If Music Could Talk, Lose This Skin and Mensford Hill); Rick Gascoigne (trombone on Ivan Meets G.I. Joe, Something About England, Lose This Skin, Mensford Hill and The Street Parade); Band Sgt. Dave Yates (Drill Sergeant on The Call Up); Den Hegarty (Darts) (vocals); Luke & Ben Gallagher (vocals on Career Opportunities); Maria Gallagher (coda vocals on Broadway); Gary Barnacle (saxophone on Ivan Meets G.I. Joe, Something About England, The Crooked Beat, Lose This Skin, Mensford Hill and The Street Parade); Arthur Edward "Bill" Barnacle (Gary's father) (trumpet on Ivan Meets G.I. Joe, Something About England, Lose This Skin and The Street Parade); Jody Linscott (percussion); Ivan Julian (Voidoids) (guitar); Noel "Tempo" Bailey (aka Sowell, reggae artist/session man) (guitar); Lew Lewis (Eddie and the Hot Rods) (harmonica on Junco Partner, Look Here, Corner Soul, Midnight Log, The Equaliser, Version City and Version Pardne"); Mikey Dread (vocals on The Crooked Beat, One More Time, Living in Fame and Look Here)