The Pogues Turkish Song of the Damned live 1986

Filmed live in Lille, France, broadcast December 17 1986, before the song was issued on If I Should Fall From Grace With God in January 1988. It s actually inspired by the band The Damned Wikipedia says: The title for Turkish Song of the Damned actually came first and inspired the song s storyline and the music s Middle Eastern influence, rather than the other way round, as Chevron revealed to the NME: We were in Germany and this magazine had an article about The Damned the Bside of one of their singles is called The Turkey Song the Bside of their 1979 single I Just Can t Be Happy Today but the mag called it The Turkish Song of the Damned it was too good a title to overlook. MacGowan explained the lyrics as being a mixture of pirate and ghost story about a guy on a Turkish island who deserted a sinking ship with all the money and all his mates went down I m not totally sure about this he s haunted and he s dancing around with all this Turkish music in his brain. .. Then his bes