The Flowers of Romance was an early punk band, formed in mid-1976 by Jo Faull and Sarah Hall, girlfriends at the time of Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols.
[2] The band ended in January 1977 when Vicious joined Sex Pistols and Morris rehearsed with Siouxsie.
[1][3] The highly controversial song "Belsen Was a Gas", about the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, was written for this band by Vicious and Levene.
[4] It was performed live by the Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd, and Sid Vicious' solo act.
Viv Albertine wrote "So Tough" for the band, with the song eventually appearing on The Slits' debut album Cut.