UK 7" [Rough Trade RT196]
Australia 7" [CBS 650758-7]
Germany 7" [Line 109073 (black vinyl)]
Germany 7" [Line LIS1.00024B (grey, white or yellow vinyl)]
Sweden 7" [MNW RT196]

Sheila Take A Bow
Is It Really So Strange? (Peel session 17/12/86)
Sweet And Tender Hooligan (Peel session 17/12/86)

UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT196]
Australia 12" [CBS 650758-6]
Germany 12" [Line 609073 (black vinyl, blue tinted cover)]
Germany 12" [Line LIEP3.00011E (white or green vinyl)]
Spain 12" [Nuevos Medios 41-258M]
Sweden 12" [MNW RTT196]

Sheila Take A Bow
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Is It Really So Strange? (Peel session 17/12/86)
Sweet And Tender Hooligan (Peel session 17/12/86)

Greece 12" [Virgin VG2086-Z]

Sheila Take A Bow
Is It Really So Strange? (Peel session 17/12/86)
Sweet And Tender Hooligan (Peel session 17/12/86)
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Half A Person
Panic
London

Germany CD5 [Line LICD9.00308L]

Artwork information:
Candy Darling from the film "Women In Revolt" (1971). Candy Darling is actually a drag queen named James Lawrence Slattery. The cover is usually deep pink, almost red except in Germany where it is lighter pink. Very early German 12"s artwork is light blue.

Etchings on vinyl:
UK 7" and 12": COOK BERNARD MATTHEWS / none
Bernard Matthews was a poultry farmer.

Additional release date information:
UK: 13 April 1987

Chart peak information:
UK: 10

Promotion:
UK: White label versions of the 12" format were used for promotion. While some of them were really white labels, most had a pink label. The records were usually slipped inside a custom black die-cut sleeve. Stock 7"s and 12"s were also dispatched for promotion, each with a different press release.

Australia: Stock copies of the 7" format with a stamped promo warning on the back were used for promotion of this single.

Germany: The white vinyl edition of the 7" was dispatched to media with an Ariola 'Single Facts' sheet.