The Clash - Sandinista
The Clash
Joe Strummer – lead and backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
Mick Jones – guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals
Paul Simonon – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Crooked Beat"
Topper Headon – drums, lead vocals on "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" and backing vocals in "The Sound of Sinners"
Additional musicians
Tymon Dogg (credited as 'Timon Dogg') – vocals and 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 "The Sound of Sinners"
Mickey Gallagher (Blockheads) – keyboards
Norman Watt-Roy (Blockheads) – bass guitar
J.P. Nicholson (also one of the album's engineers)
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 "Mensforth Hill"
Rick Gascoigne – trombone on "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe", "Something About England", "Lose This Skin", "Mensforth 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", "Mensforth 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
Anthony Nelson Steelie (Wycliffe Johnson of Steely and Clevie) – keyboards
Lew Lewis (Eddie and the Hot Rods) – harmonica on "Junco Partner", "Look Here", "Corner Soul", "Midnight Log", "The Equaliser", "Version City" and "Version Pardner"
Gerald Baxter-Warman
Terry McQuade (had a small role in Rude Boy)
Rudolph Adolphus Jordan
Battersea
Mikey Dread – vocals on "The Crooked Beat", "One More Time", "Living in Fame" and "Look Here"
Production
The Clash – producers
Bill Price – chief engineer
Jerry Green – engineer
J. P. Nicholson – engineer
Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie – engineer
Mark Freegard – assistant engineer
Mikey Dread – version mix
Pennie Smith – photography
Steve Bell – cartoonist
Joe Strummer – lead and backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
Mick Jones – guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals
Paul Simonon – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Crooked Beat"
Topper Headon – drums, lead vocals on "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" and backing vocals in "The Sound of Sinners"
Additional musicians
Tymon Dogg (credited as 'Timon Dogg') – vocals and 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 "The Sound of Sinners"
Mickey Gallagher (Blockheads) – keyboards
Norman Watt-Roy (Blockheads) – bass guitar
J.P. Nicholson (also one of the album's engineers)
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 "Mensforth Hill"
Rick Gascoigne – trombone on "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe", "Something About England", "Lose This Skin", "Mensforth 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", "Mensforth 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
Anthony Nelson Steelie (Wycliffe Johnson of Steely and Clevie) – keyboards
Lew Lewis (Eddie and the Hot Rods) – harmonica on "Junco Partner", "Look Here", "Corner Soul", "Midnight Log", "The Equaliser", "Version City" and "Version Pardner"
Gerald Baxter-Warman
Terry McQuade (had a small role in Rude Boy)
Rudolph Adolphus Jordan
Battersea
Mikey Dread – vocals on "The Crooked Beat", "One More Time", "Living in Fame" and "Look Here"
Production
The Clash – producers
Bill Price – chief engineer
Jerry Green – engineer
J. P. Nicholson – engineer
Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie – engineer
Mark Freegard – assistant engineer
Mikey Dread – version mix
Pennie Smith – photography
Steve Bell – cartoonist
