The Clash - Spanish Bombs

“Spanish Bombs“ is a song by The Clash, sung by Joe Strummer, 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, an armed Basque nationalist separatist organisation founded in 1959 in Spain. “Spanish Bombs“ praises the heroism of Republicans who ranged from centrists to revolutionary anarchists and communists in the Spanish Civil War, a ma