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24: 359:; more or less had to engineer the bloody thing myself cos the engineer there ran out going, 'That's impossible โ€“ 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!" 133: 355:
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
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Writing in 2002, writer Garry Mulholland described the song as "the strangest chart record of the last 25 years, maybe ever."
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Single
Public Image Ltd
The Flowers of Romance
B-side
UK
Genre
Experimental rock
post-punk
Label
Virgin
Songwriter(s)
John Lydon
Keith Levene
Producer(s)
Public Image Ltd
Nick Launay
Public Image Ltd
Memories

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