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Flowers of Romance (song)
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Wikipedia article
'"Flowers of Romance"' is a song by Public Image Ltd. It reached number twenty four on the UK Singles Chart. The 12" extended version of the song is actually two songs counted as one track: the single version of the song followed by an instrumental version of it.
"Listening to that again reminded me of coming out of jail [after being arrested for alleged assault in 1980]," John Lydon told 'Select' in 1990. "That's when I recorded it. I left Dublin and went straight into the studio for two weeks solid: slept there, did everything myself, practically. No band; couldn't find Keith; more of less had to engineer the bloody thing myself cos the engineer there ran out going, 'That's impossible you can't do that!' I did it. That particular song, I timed how long it would take me to turn the tape on, run into the studio and turn it all off. I had to rehearse that about 20 bloody times before I got it right!"'Select', December 1990
Writing in 2002, writer Garry Mulholland described the song as "the strangest chart record of the last 25 years, maybe ever."
NME ranked it the 41st best single of the year.
Track listing
;7" vinyl
#"Flowers of Romance" 2:50
#"Home Is Where the Heart Is" 7:33
;12" vinyl
#"Flowers of Romance (Extended Version)" - 5:40
#"Home Is Where the Heart Is" 7:33
Chart performance
References
Category:1981 singles
Category:Public Image Ltd songs
Category:Songs written by John Lydon
Category:Song recordings produced by Nick Launay
Category:1980 songs
Category:Virgin Records singles
Category:Songs written by Keith Levene
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