Barry Philips Discos

Published by Barry Philips · February 12 at 1:00 PM · 

THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
42-The Smiths-Panic
1986-Number 11 single.
Best Bit-At 1.33.If I had £1 for every time someone has sung this to me, I could afford to buy my own gallows.
‘Panic was co-written by Morrissey(lyrics) and Johnny Marr(music,) Marr has said that around that time Morrissey was into the song ‘Metal Guru’ by T.Rex so he based this songs guitar riff on that(see also best songs 940-673-222-167 and 72.)
Morrissey and Marr had been listening to the BBC Radio 1 ‘Newsbeat ‘ programme reporting about the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster that occurred on April 16,1986, as soon as the report was over the DJ Steve Wright played the song ‘I’m Your Man’ by Wham.This led Marr to think that the Radio station were not showing respect to the tragedy by playing an upbeat Pop song that was meant to have no serious meaning. Marr said, ‘We hear about Chernobyl, then seconds later we’re expected to jump around to ‘I’m Your Man.”This was probably the likely influence for Morrissey’s lyrics.The Smiths later commissioned a T-shirt featuring Wright’s portrait and the phrase ‘Hang the DJ.’
The song name checks places in Britain and Ireland where unrest(probably from youths) could occur because of the music being force fed to them,
‘Says nothing about my life.’
‘On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down.The provincial town’s you jog ’round.Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ.’
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