From the start it also stood out because of a very unusual device, the Spanish phrases that repeat the English ones, something that immediately gave it a sense of play, irony, and bilingual liveliness unlike anything else in English language rock at that moment. Those Spanish parts were sung with Joe Strummer by Joe Ely, a singer from Texas whose 1978 album Honky Tonk Masquerade had caught the attention of The Clash when they heard it in England.