Tragic Days

Written by:

Mark E Smith, Martin Bramah

Initial release:

Levitate Limited edition CD

Date:

29 September 1997

Subsequent release:

Levitate Expanded

Commentary:

Martin Bramah by email about how this track came about:

“Tragic Days was recorded on an old stereo cassette machine at my flat in Whalley Range Manchester sometime in early 1990. We were working on an idea of Craig’s, to which I may have contributed something, it was just a work in progress type of thing, with no title, that was never finished as such. When it was released on Levitate in ’97 I think Mark credited me as the writer but as I said it was an idea of Craig’s really. Given the title of the song and the poor recording quality I don’t think he was doing me any favours really! As far as writing credits go it is aways a bit hit and miss with the fall as Mark never asks band members who wrote what, he just issues writing credits as he sees fit at the time.”