Love Comes Quickly

Infobox Single |
Name = Love Comes Quickly


Caption = 7" single cover
Artist = Pet Shop Boys
from Album = Please
B-side = "That's My Impression"
Released = February 24, 1986
Format = 7", 12"
Recorded =
Genre = Synthpop
Length = 4:18
Label = Parlophone / EMI
Writer = Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Stephen Hague
Producer = Stephen Hague
Last single = "West End Girls"
(second release)
(1985)
This single = "Love Comes Quickly"
(1986)
Next single = "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
(second release)
(1986)
Misc =

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"Love Comes Quickly" is a song by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as the third single from their 1986 album "Please", and the last of its singles to be released before the album itself. Although a Top 20 hit in the UK, its chart performance was disappointing, given that it followed the worldwide number one, "West End Girls".

The song is about the inevitability of falling in love, even for those who deliberately shun the idea.

Production

Producer Stephen Hague receives a co-writing credit for writing the first two chords of the middle section of the song.Heath, Chris (2001). " [http://www.petshopboys.net/html/interviews/pleasse004.shtml Love Comes Quickly] ". In "Please / Further Listening 1984-1986" [CD liner notes] . London: Pet Shop Boys Partnership.] Andy Mackay of Roxy Music plays the saxophone parts towards the end of the song.

Release

As with "Opportunities", the 12-version of the single contains remixes by 1980s producer Shep Pettibone. Later, in 2003, new remixes by Blank & Jones were produced for the promotion of the singles collection "".

Cover

The cover, featuring Chris Lowe in a baseball cap emblazoned with "BOY" in block letters, has become an iconic Pet Shop Boys image. It has been incorporated into various parodies of the duo's appearance, such as the music video for the 2006 Pet Shop Boys single "I'm with Stupid", and a [http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20060208 2006 comic strip] from webcomic "Scary Go Round".

Neil Tennant of the duo later recollected that he had expected the image of the cap to be the group's coming out moment, calling it "incredibly gay".cite web | author = Silcott, Mireille | year = 1999 | url = http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/111199/music1.html | title = The Pet Shop Boys, obsessively | format = | work = | publisher = "Montreal Mirror" | accessdate = 2006-06-21 | accessyear = ]

Music video

Directed by Eric Watson, regular Pet Shop Boys photographer and music video director throughout the 1980s, the video to the song is very simple, utilizing facial shots of Tennant singing, interposed with blurry montages of the faces of various other people; at points, shots of Lowe, lying on top of a construction of a square grid, are superimposed over these shots. Watson would later call it a "complete disaster".cite web | author = | month = May | year = 1992 | url = http://www.petshopboys.net/html/literallys/literally_08/literally_08_page_2.shtml | title = Interview with Eric Watson | format = | work = | publisher = "Literally" (Pet Shop Boys fanclub magazine) | accessdate = 2006-06-21 | accessyear = ]

Track listing

7": Parlophone / R 6116 (UK)

A. "Love Comes Quickly" (4:18)

B. "That's My Impression" (4:45)

12": Parlophone / 12 R 6116 (UK)

A. "Love Comes Quickly" (Dance Mix) (6:50)

B. "That's My Impression" (Disco Mix) (5:18)

* also released on 10" (10 R 6116)

12": Capitol / V-19218 (US)

A1. "Love Comes Quickly" (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) (7:34)

A2. "Love Comes Quickly" (Dub Mix) (6:55)

B1. "Love Comes Quickly" (Dance Mix) (6:50)

B2. "That's My Impression" (Disco Mix) (5:18)

Chart performance

Cover versions

As early as 1986, a Japanese-language cover version of the song was recorded by pop singer Hidemi Ishikawa. [jp icon [http://idolep.hp.infoseek.co.jp/80s/hidemi-ishikawa/hidemi.htm Hidemi Ishikawa discography page] ]

In English, "Love Comes Quickly" was also covered by Memphis on their 2004 album "I Dreamed We Fell Apart", and it was one of the songs on the Pet Shop Boys tribute band West End Girls' 2006 debut album.

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