Talk:Panic (The Smiths song)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Steve Wright
Whats all this crap about the song being about Steve Wright playing Wham after a news story about Chernobyl? Morrissey wrote "Panic" simply because he hated the crappy disco music being played in most night clubs at the time. He thought it was pointless because it didn't relate to the things going on in his life. Thats why the lyrics say "Burn down the discos, hang the blessed DJ" - if it was about Steve Wright on Radio 1, he wouldn't have written "burn down the disco" would he. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.75.166 (talk) 00:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * See my recent additions. Tony Fletcher makes the same point. Daniel Case (talk) 17:48, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The Times quotes Johnny Marr saying that he and Morrissey were listening to Wright's show when the Chernobyl bulletin came on and so that seems the proximate trigger. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:24, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Opening paragraph
There is a quote in the opening paragraph: "The song "...extended The Smiths' unorthodox tradition of releasing a non-album A-side" 77of a single.[1]" What does the 77 mean? I do not have the book that the quote is from. Alanobrien (talk) 02:55, 2 August 2017 (UTC)