High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Rock the Casbah" is a song by the English punk rock band The Clash, released in 1982. It was released as the third single from their fifth album, Combat Rock. The song reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. (their only top 10 single Stateside) and, along with the track "Mustapha Dance," it also reached number eight on the dance chart. It is the band`s highest charting single worldwide.