The song arose from an incident on the radio where DJ Steve Wright had played the Wham! song "I'm Your Man" after a serious news report about the Chernobyl disaster. The band were disgusted at the dismissiveness of the disaster by Wright, which is why the song features the lines "The music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life" and the spookily chirpy refrain "Hang the DJ".

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_(song)
calvadossays...

I loved this song so much when I first heard it at age 15 (early 1990s). I didn't catch the title and nobody could tell me since it was too obscure for my hometown and I didn't know where to look it up (no internet) so after weeks of trying to find out I spent the only $30 I had on both volumes of the Smiths' greatest hits because I figured it had to be on there. It was. (It's called "Panic" btw )

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