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“I Fought the Law” is a much-covered song originally recorded by Sonny Curtis and The Crickets (post Buddy Holly) in 1959. The song was famously covered by Bobby Fuller Four, who recorded a more successful version of the song in 1965, and by The Clash, who performed and recorded a punk rock version in 1976 and 1977. Just as the song became a top ten hit, Bobby Fuller was found dead in a parked automobile near his Los Angeles, California home. The police considered the death an apparent suicide; however, many people[who?]still believe Fuller was murdered. The Dead Kennedys, in particular, wrote and recorded a different version as a comment on Dan White’s 1978 murder of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, and White’s subsequent use of the “Twinkie defense” to influence the court to convict him of the lesser charge of manslaughter. The song, sung from White’s perspective, replaced the line “I fought the law and the law won” with “I fought the law and I won”. In 1989 during Operation Just Cause, when the US Army had Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega confined to the Papal Nunciature, the Vatican’s Embassy, and were attempting to flush him out. US ARMY PSYOPS Units surrounded the compound and used several psychological tactics including flood lights and loud speakers. They played music like “I Fought the Law” loudly and repeatedly from the loudspeakers. The Bobby Fuller Four version of this song is ranked #175 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 …
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