Spanish Bombs
"Spanish Bombs" is a song by The Clash, with principal vocals by Joe Strummer and additional vocals by Mick Jones, and featured on their 1979 double album London Calling. The song is about the Spanish Civil War and was written after travelling home from Wessex Studios when Joe Strummer was talking with Gaby Salter about ETA, a far-left Basque nationalist organisation founded in 1959 in Spain.
The song also appears on the Clash compilation albums The Story of the Clash, Volume 1 (1988) and Clash on Broadway (1991).
It was covered by Tijuana No! on their 1999 album "Rock del Mileno" (released as "Rock Milenium" in America).
Chuck Prophet was to use the name Spanish Bombs for a band he formed who toured the entire London Calling album in Spain, the UK and US.
Read more about Spanish Bombs: References To The Spanish Civil War
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