UK 7" [Rough Trade RT193]
Australia 7" [CBS RTANZ017]
Germany 7" [Teldec/Zensor 6.14684]
Holland 7" [Megadisc MD5285]

Panic
Vicar In A Tutu
The Draize Train

UK 12" [Rough Trade RTT193]
UK CD5 [Rough Trade RTT193CD]
Australia CD5 [Festival D1076]
Brazil 12" [WEA 670.0001]
Brazil CMS [WEA 767.0001]
Canada 12" [Sire 92 05440]
Holland 12" [Megadisc MD125285]
Spain 12" [Nuevos Medios 41-208M]
USA 12" [Sire 9 20544-0]

Panic
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Queen Is Dead/Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty

Germany 12" [Teldec/Zensor 6.20648 (in black or blue vinyl)]
Germany 12" [Teldec/Zensor 16.20503 (in blue vinyl)]

Additional information:
Early copies of the UK 7" and 12" came with a set of different stickers saying "The Smiths", "Panic" and "Hang The DJ". The number of 12"s with stickers is estimated to be 5000. View 12" stickers in left bar. The stickers with the 7" single were similar, but round.

An EP of tracks from this single and "Bigmouth Strikes Again" was released in Greece. This is listed on the "Bigmouth Strikes Again" page.

Artwork information:
Richard Bradford star of "Man In A Suitcase", 1967.
This is one of only two singles to only have the word "Smiths" on the front. The other is "Bigmouth Strikes Again".

Etchings on vinyl:
UK 7" and 12":
I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT / none
Germany 12":
'HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA' / HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA

The UK etching is a pun on "I dreamt about you last night", a lyric from the song "Reel Around The Fountain".

Additional release date information:
UK 7" and 12": 21 July 1986
USA/Canada: mid-September 1986
UK and Australia cd-singles: end of 1988

Chart peak information:
UK: 11
Holland: 19
USA: never charted

Promotion:
UK: White label versions of the 12" were dispatched to media, occasionally with a 12"x24" poster of the song's lyrics inside and/or a press release. Stock copies of the 7" with a plugger sticker and a press sheet were also sent to media.

Australia: The stock edition of this 7" was sent to radio in a generic record company sleeve.

Brazil: Promo 12"s were made from stock copies of the 12" by having a promo warning stamped in gold on the back. A 4-track various artists promo EP (WEA #47) featuring the title track was also distributed for promotion. It was slipped in a black sleeve with yellow text. Another various artists promo EP featured a 2:53 live version of "Panic" "from the Live Compilation LP In Concert", but this probably didn't promote this single.

Canada: Gold-stamped copies of this 12" single were circulated for promotion.

Germany: A promo VHS featuring the Derek Jarman videos for "The Queen Is Dead" and "Panic" (2 versions of the latter) were distributed to the relevant media in Germany for promotion of this single as well as the "The Queen Is Dead" album. Shortly after, in 1987, "Panic" appeared on a label promo sampler titled "Another Christmas Gift From Line" (LICD 9.00500G).

USA: A very low number of gold-stamped copies of this 12" single were distributed for promotion because the single was released so late by Sire, at about the same time as the "Ask" single. A one-track promo VHS video was also distributed to the relevant media. Besides being distributed on the record label's various artists video compilation, the video of the title track was also included on the December 1986 issue of the Rockamerica promo video series, the December 1986 volume of the Telegenics promo videos series and an early 1987 volume of the Video Pool series.