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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 refrain quotes "Liechtensteiner Polka" by Edmund Kötscher and Rudi Lindt.
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 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.
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 soon added more members, including James Fearnley and Cait O'Riordain, and built a reputation playing ...
Shane MacGowan, frontman of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, has died. He was 65.The singer's wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced the tragic news Thursday on Instagram with a touching tribute in ...
The Very Best of the Pogues is a greatest hits album by The Pogues, released in April 2001. ... "Fiesta" (MacGowan, Jem Finer, Edmund Kötscher, Rudi Lindt)
You know, in case you want to plan a road trip with your besties, make a ~vibey~ playlist and let your Instagram followers know you’re #P4L — that’s Pogues 4 Life. Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix ...