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Track: Strange Fruit
Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Album: Through The Looking Glass (Remastered And Expanded)

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Name: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Spotify Genres: gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, deathrock, new wave, cold wave
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U.K. band, formed in London in 1976, fronted by [a=Siouxsie Sioux] (Susan Janet Ballion) on vocals, with [a=Steven Severin] (Steven John Bailey) playing bass. [a=Kenny Morris] played drums from July 1977 to September 1979. He left the Band famously together with then Guitarist [a=John McKay] a few hours before a concert of the 'Join Hands' Tour after a heavy disagreement about signing records at a local store in Aberdeen. In 1980 [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/295874-Budgie-2]Budgie[/url] (Peter Clarke) joined them on drums, up to their demise. He also worked with Siouxsie as the band [a=The Creatures]). Guitarists for the band have included [a=Marco Pirroni] (1976), [a=Pete Fenton] (1976-1977), [a=John McKay] (1977-1979), [a=John McGeoch] (1980-1982), [a=John Valentine Carruthers] (1984-1987), [a=Jon Klein] (1987-1995), [a=Knox Chandler] (1995, 2003) and also [a=Robert Smith] of [a=The Cure] (1980, 1982-1984) (who also worked with Severin as the band [a=The Glove]). Multiinstrumentalist [a=Martin McCarrick] was the band's full-time keyboard player from 1987 onwards. SATB disbanded in April 1996 and returned once for The Seven Year Itch tour in 2002. In 2003, [a893562] published Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Authorised Biography.

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Release: Siouxsie & The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass
Year: 1987
Genres: Rock
Styles: Alternative Rock, Art Rock

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LYRICS

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
Of the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop