“Fiesta” by The Pogues

"Fiesta" is the Pogues at full, reeling tilt, a single off 1988's If I Should Fall from Grace with God that Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan built on a Spanish fairground tune Finer had picked up, with the refrain nicking a snatch of Edmund Kötscher and Rudi Lindt's "Liechtensteiner Polka" for good measure. Steve Lillywhite produced.

The words wander off to the Spanish city of Almería and slip in a nod to former bassist Cait O'Riordan, who had quit the band and taken up with Elvis Costello. Comedian Adrian Edmondson directed the video up on Casa Batlló's rooftop in Barcelona. It was the last new MacGowan-era single to crack the UK Top 30, but it has turned up in most of their sets ever since, and Glasgow's Celtic sometimes play a burst of it after a goal.

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