Tracks:
This is Not a Love Song / Public Image

Release Date:
5.9.83
Re-issued by Old Gold ?/88

Label & Catalogue Number:
Virgin. VS 529

Highest UK Chart Position:
5

Personnel:
Vox - John Lydon
Guitar / Bass - Keith Levene
Drums - Martin Atkins

Format Info:
Picture Sleeve.

The single was later re-issued in 1988 by Old Gold Records in a plain Old Gold sleeve (OG 9823).

Track Info:
This version of the track is a slightly different mix than the version on 'Commercial Zone' with more keyboards, and less guitar. This is the mix which prompted Keith Levene's departure from the band.

Trivia:
Concerned of a possible flop Virgin Records decided to tack 'Public Image' onto the release to help sales; which was ironic as 'This is Not a Love Song' turned out to be PiL's biggest ever hit single peaking at No. 5.

The sleeve incorrectly states the NYC studio as South Park, rather than Park South.

This was the only PiL single to be re-issued by "oldie but goldie" re-issue label Old Gold.

A promo video was shot for the single. Directed by Larry White.

Producer:
Produced by PiL & Bob Miller

Studio:
Park South Studios, New York

Sleeve Design:
Unknown

Quotes:
It was all very tongue-in-cheek. At the time, people were saying that that I'd joined big business and become a bourgeois shit. So I thought the best way of tackling this would be to pump out a song saying that's exactly what I am, tongue firmly in cheek. And that kind of stopped that nonsense, so it worked.
- John Lydon, Volume 3 CD/Book 1992

Lyrics:
This is Not a Love Song
Public Image

Press Reviews:
Smash Hits, September 1983