| Procession | |
| Cover: | Proccesion New Order.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | New Order |
| B-Side: | Everything's Gone Green |
| Released: | September 1981 |
| Genre: | Post-punk |
| Length: | 4:27 |
| Label: | Factory FAC 53 |
| Producer: | Martin Hannett |
| Prev Title: | Ceremony |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Everything's Gone Green |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
"Procession" is the second single by the British group New Order, released in September 1981 on 7" vinyl record. It is a double A side with "Everything's Gone Green". The single's Factory Records catalogue number is FAC 53. (Labelled as B Music)
Similar to the album cover for Movement, the artwork is taken from a "Dinamo Futurista" magazine cover done by Italian futurist designer Fortunato Depero. Notably, the UK release's sleeve came in nine versions, all with different colours: black, blue, aqua, yellow, red, brown, orange, green and purple. The second side of the single contains a shortened version of "Everything's Gone Green", the full-length version of which was later released as a 12" single on its own.
Although the original UK single does not indicate which is side A or B (the runoff matrix simply lists "SOFT" and "HARD" for each side), the French edition of the single actually has "Everything's Gone Green" labeled as the A-side track, and some Spanish and Portuguese pressings have reversed labels.[1]
| Chart (1981) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart[2] | 38 | |
| UK Independent Singles Chart[3] | 1 |