Virginia did the string arrangements for the track Fireworks (in conjunction with John McGeoch) on this release.

Siouxsie Sioux herself commented "From what I can remember the String section was 4 big chaps who came direct from working with Black Sabbath - very 'eavy 'n all that! I think John McGeoch knew Virginia Astley and that she probably did score the string parts."

Rumours of Virginia working with John Foxx around the same period led to a question being asked on Foxx's Metamatic website in which he responded: "As far as I remember, we met a couple of times in the early 1980's, when Virginia came down to The Garden Studio in Shoreditch. We had Siouxsie and The Cure in the studio and I was mid-album myself".

In the book Siouxsie & The Banshees-The Authorised Biography by Mark Paytress, John McGeoch mentions the recording of the song: "Fireworks was an obvious single, and I was amazed it didn't do better. Siouxsie and Severin had the lyric, I came up with the string part on guitar and the killer bassline was all Severin's. We got Virginia Astley in to score it - the quartet rountined it in five minutes and recorded it in one take".

When this single was released in May 1982, Virginia herself was busy in the Moulsford countryside recording natural sound effects that would later be used on her 1983 debut album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.