Behind the Songs: Cigarette

A selection of quotes from The Psychedelic Furs on the song "Cigarette".

Richard Butler: "That song was about sitting at the end of somebody's bed and sort of smoking a cigarette and letting the day go through your head." (Interview with Robert Cherry, 2001)

John Ashton (on the songs by his band Satellite Paradiso): "I did write 'Angelic', 'Bad Blood', 'Situation', 'Insomnia' and 'Outlaws' and a few others at a time when I was still playing in The Furs. I modelled 'Angelic' on 'Pretty In Pink' – it has a similar chord structure and is based around the D chord progression – albeit with a few twists and turns thrown in. 'Cigarette' is basically The Furs's version of the 'Angelic' idea." (Interview with Dave Furneaux, 2014)

John Ashton: "I had given Richard Butler a version of 'Angelic' [Satellite Paradiso], and he wrote the Furs song 'Cigarette' from that." (Interview with David Iozzia, 2016)

Tim Butler: "['Cigarette'] was never seriously considered, never brought up. Not to say it won't – maybe down the line a bit, but we came up with so many new songs in the six or seven months leading up to when we recorded [Made Of Rain]." (WriteWyattUK 2020)