Bigmouth Strikes Again
Panic
Vicar In A Tutu
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Ask
I Want The One I Can't Have
Cemetry Gates
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Is It Really So Strange?
Shakespeare's Sister
Stretch Out And Wait
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
The Queen Is Dead
/I Know It's Over
//(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians
//Hand In Glove

After "Vicar In A Tutu", Morrissey said "I hope the pressure of having to actually stand on your own two feet isn't too painful", something that might not have endeared him to the portions of the audience who were not there to see the Smiths. Before "Ask", which was yet unreleased, he announced "Thank you, you're very kind... this is a new song, 'Ask'." After that song Johnny teasingly picked a few notes from what sounds like "(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame ". In "Is It Really So Strange?" Morrissey replaced "you can break my spine" by "you can break my face".

In "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" Morrissey sang "Why do you kick them when they fall down" instead of "Why must you...". That song was updated with a new extended outro. In "The Queen Is Dead", as he sang the title line, Morrissey pulled out a board saying THE QUEEN IS DEAD in white over black and waved it around until the end of the song. In "I Know It's Over", he sang the slightly different "the knife wants to cut me". Before the final song, "Hand In Glove", he just said "Thank you, you've been very kind".

The set was recorded by Piccadilly Radio. It was first broadcast on FA Cup Final day in 1987, and repeated over the years. The broadcast featured the whole gig minus "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side", "Is It Really So Strange?" and "Rusholme Ruffians" which were dropped to make the rest fit within one hour. The outro to "The Queen Is Dead" was also cut before the end, although very little is missing.

The radio broadcast mentioned above is available on an untitled cd-r bootleg. The sound quality is good, but could be better given that it is a radio broadcast.

A poor sounding set with the exact same track listing is available on the vinyl bootleg "Heavy Horses". The track listing seems to hint that this was also produced from the radio broadcast, but the sound is as bad as a poor audience recording. The bootleg LP was likely produced via a bad tape copy of the FM broadcast. This is also circulated nowadays on fanmade CD-Rs under the title "G-mex".

Fans interested in this gig might prefer the good audience recording brought to us by the notorious Soundsville International (recorder: Paul). Unlike the radio show it doesn't lack any songs, and the sound quality is actually superior to all FM recordings in circulation.

The "Royal Command Performance" double-LP bootleg was produced from a high generation copy of the above audience recording and sounds rather poorly. It lacks "Panic", "Cemetry Gates", "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side", "The Queen Is Dead" and "Hand In Glove" which makes it even less interesting ("Frankly Mr Shankly" is not listed on the sleeve but it is tagged at the end of "Vicar In A Tutu"). This abbreviated set is paired with a portion of the Smiths' final concert on 12 December 1986 at Brixton Academy and this can also be found in better quality and quantity elsewhere. The LP set has been transfered to fanmade CD-Rs and is now circulated as such.

A manufactured cd version of "Royal Command Performance" features even fewer tracks. Besides the missing ones listed above, it also lacks "Stretch Out And Wait", "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" and "I Know It's Over". p> The radio and audience recordings of all sources/formats mentioned above are available on the internet in various digital formats. Unfortunately, the best option - the full audience recording - is at this point in time the scarcest version in circulation.