Released 27 March 1981 (UK) Length 2:50 | Format 7" vinyl12" vinyl | |
B-side "Home Is Where the Heart Is" Genre Experimental rockpost-punk | ||
"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!"
NME ranked it the 41st best single of the year.
Track listing
- "Flowers of Romance" – 2:50
- "Home Is Where the Heart Is" – 7:33
- "Flowers of Romance (Extended Version)" - 5:40
- "Home Is Where the Heart Is" – 7:33