This song was very likely written shortly before or during the recording sessions for the "Ringleader Of The Tormentors" album, which took place at Forum Music Village in Rome between September and November 2005, with producer Tony Visconti. Musicians on this recording were Boz Boorer (guitar, saxophone, et al.), Alain Whyte (guitar), Jesse Tobias (guitar and crash cymbals), Gary Day (bass), Matt Chamberlain (drums) and Michael Farrell (piano, organ, keyboards, trumpet, trombone, percussion). The song also features a children's choir.

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• "Ringleader Of The Tormentors" album

L'album de la semaine 11 September 2006 [tv]

This song as well as the other six Morrissey did on this programme at the time (but on different days of the same week) are circulated on bootleg video. The audio can be found in digital format on the internet.

This song has been performed live 92 times by Morrissey. It was done 66 times on the 2006 Tour Of The Tormentors MMVI, a regular from the beginning of the tour until the end of August then dropped. It returned for 26 more dates on the 2007-2008 Greatest Hits tour, a near-regular from May to July 2007 and only one performance after that.

There are no officially released live recordings of the song at this point in time.

No demos or studio outtakes of this song have leaked to the general public at this point in time.