Fireworks (song)
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"Fireworks" | ||
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Single by Siouxsie & the Banshees | ||
from the album Twice Upon a Time: The Singles | ||
B-side(s) | "Coal Mind", "We Fall" | |
Released | May 21, 1982 | |
Format | 7" single, 12" single | |
Recorded | 1982 | |
Genre | Gothic rock | |
Label | Polydor | |
Writer(s) | Siouxsie & the Banshees | |
Producer(s) | Siouxsie & the Banshees | |
Chart positions | ||
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Siouxsie & the Banshees singles chronology | ||
"Arabian Knights" (1981) |
"Fireworks" (1982) |
"Slowdive" (1982) |
"Fireworks" is a song written, produced and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees in 1982. It was released as a stand-alone single in between the Banshees albums Juju and A Kiss in the Dreamhouse.
The song marked a change in direction for Siouxsie & the Banshees, as the band began to record more elaborate, lush, and musically complex songs ("Fireworks" opens with an orchestral string section). A Kiss in the Dreamhouse is widely considered to be the beginning of Siouxsie & the Banshees' "experimental" period and this single helped to set the stage for that album. "Fireworks" peaked at number twenty-two in the UK singles chart. It did not appear on any Banshees albums until the 1992 compilation Twice Upon a Time: The Singles.