Flowers of Romance (song)

"Flowers of Romance"
Single by Public Image Ltd
from the album The Flowers of Romance
B-side "Home Is Where the Heart Is"
Released March 27, 1981 (UK)
Format 7" & 12" vinyl
Genre Post-punk, experimental rock
Length 2:50
Label Virgin VS 397
Producer(s) Public Image Ltd, Nick Launay
Public Image Ltd singles chronology
"Memories"
(1979)		 "Flowers of Romance"
(1981)		 "This Is Not a Love Song"
(1983)

"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!"[1]

Track listing

7" vinyl
  1. "Flowers of Romance" – 2:50
  2. "Home Is Where the Heart Is" – 7:21
12" vinyl
  1. "Flowers of Romance (Extended Version)" - 5:40
  2. "Home Is Where the Heart Is" – 7:21

Chart performance

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[2] 19
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[3] 24

References

  1. ↑ Select, December 1990
  2. ↑ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Archive Chart: 1981-05-02" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved 20 September 2014.