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"Fiesta" is a single by The Pogues featured on their 1988 album, If I Should Fall from Grace with God. It was written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan , based on a Spanish fairground melody Finer had picked up.
The Pogues performing in Munich in 2011. From left to right: Philip Chevron, James Fearnley, Andrew Ranken, Shane MacGowan, Darryl Hunt, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. The Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band the Pogues have recorded songs for seven studio albums as well as one extended play (EP), twenty singles, and various other projects.
If I Should Fall from Grace with God is the third studio album by Celtic folk-punk band the Pogues, released on 18 January 1988. [1] Released in the wake of their biggest hit single, "Fairytale of New York", If I Should Fall from Grace with God also became the band's best-selling album, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart and reaching the top ten in several other countries.
The Pogues, “Fiesta” (1988) Like their brothers in arms, the Clash, MacGowan’s Pogues toyed tremendously with the merging of punk, British folk and Latin pulses to exquisite, bold rhythmic ...
The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish [a] Celtic punk band founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, [1] by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. [2] Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation by James Joyce of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse"—the band fused Irish traditional music with punk rock influences.
The Pogues' Shane MacGowan, who died Nov. 30 at age 65, dressed as Father Christmas in 1990. (Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (UCG via Getty Images)
"Fiesta" (MacGowan, Jem Finer, Edmund Kötscher, Rudi Lindt) "A Pair of Brown Eyes" (MacGowan) "Fairytale of New York" (featuring Kirsty MacColl) (MacGowan, Finer) "The Body of An American" (MacGowan) "Streams of Whiskey" (MacGowan) "The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn" (MacGowan) "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" (MacGowan)
"If I Should Fall from Grace with God" was a single released by The Pogues in February 1988, from the album of the same name If I Should Fall from Grace with God (released in January 1988). It followed the band's Christmas classic, "Fairytale of New York", but did not enjoy the same widespread success, stalling at Number 58 in th