Fireworks (song)

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"Fireworks"
"Fireworks" cover
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
  • #22 (UK)
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.

Siouxsie & the Banshees
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Knox Chandler | John Valentine Carruthers | Peter Fenton | Jon Klein | Martin McCarrick | John McGeoch | John McKay | Kenny Morris | Marco Pirroni | Robert Smith | Sid Vicious
Siouxsie & the Banshees discography
Studio albums and extended plays: The Scream | Join Hands | Kaleidoscope | Juju | A Kiss in the Dreamhouse | Hyæna | The Thorn EP | Tinderbox | Through the Looking Glass | Peepshow | Superstition | The Rapture
Compilations: Once Upon a Time: The Singles | Twice Upon a Time: The Singles | The Best of Siouxsie & the Banshees | Downside Up
Live Albums: Nocturne | Seven Year Itch
Peel Sessions: Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions
Singles: Hong Kong Garden | The Staircase (Mystery) | Playground Twist | Mittageisen / Love in a Void | Happy House | Christine | Israel | Spellbound | Arabian Knights | Fireworks | Slowdive | Melt! | Dear Prudence | Swimming Horses | Dazzle | Overground | Cities in Dust | Candyman | This Wheel's on Fire | The Passenger | Song from the Edge of the World | Peek-a-Boo | The Killing Jar | The Last Beat of My Heart | Kiss Them for Me | Shadowtime | Fear (of the Unknown) | Face to Face | O Baby | Stargazer
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