Flowers of Romance

About Flowers of Romance

"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!"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. more »

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2005

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Now in the summer
I could be happy or in distress
Depending on the
Company
On the veranda
Talk of the future or reminisce
Behind the
Dialouge
We're in a mess
Whatever I intended
I sent you flowers
You
Wanted chocolates instead
The flowers of romance
The flowers of
Romance

I've got binoculars
On top of boxhill
I could be
Nero
Fly the eagle
Start all over again
I can't depend on these
So-called friends
It's a pity you need to bend
I'll take the
Furniture
Start all over again.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of the post-punk band Public Image Ltd (PiL), which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again from 2009. Throughout his career, Lydon has made controversial or dismissive comments about the royal family and other subjects. There has been a recent revival of a 1980s movement to have Lydon knighted for his achievements with the Sex Pistols- even though he has since turned down an MBE for his services to music. In 2002 he was named among the 100 … more »

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