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1986 single by Pet Shop Boys From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Love Comes Quickly" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as the second single from their debut studio album, Please (1986). It peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1986.[1]
"Love Comes Quickly" | ||||
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Single by Pet Shop Boys | ||||
from the album Please | ||||
B-side | "That's My Impression" | |||
Released | 24 February 1986 | |||
Recorded | 1985 | |||
Genre | Synth-pop | |||
Length | 4:19 | |||
Label | Parlophone | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Stephen Hague | |||
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Love Comes Quickly" on YouTube |
Producer Stephen Hague receives a co-writing credit for writing the first two chords of the middle section of the song.[2] Andy Mackay of Roxy Music plays the saxophone parts towards the end of the song.[3]
As with "Opportunities", the 12-version of the single contains remixes by 1980s producer Shep Pettibone. The remixes of "Love Comes Quickly" and "That's My Impression" reached the top ten on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in October 1986.[4] Later, in 2003, new remixes by Blank & Jones were produced for the promotion of the singles collection PopArt.
In a 2023 interview with Greatest Hits Radio, Noel Gallagher stated that “love comes quickly” is the song he “wished he’d written.”
In a contemporary review for Billboard's "Dance Trax" column, Brian Chin wrote that "Pet Shop Boys' "Love Comes Quickly" (Parlophone U.K.) is even more a tribute to drifting Italian disco-pop than the team's current hit. Once "West End Girls" has concluded what will undoubtedly be a hugely successful run, this will follow nicely. The flip, "That's My Impression," deserves double A-rank, with its jittery hi-NRG beat and petulant lyric."[5]
The cover, featuring Chris Lowe in a baseball cap emblazoned with "BOY" in block letters, has become an iconic Pet Shop Boys image. 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".[6]
Directed by Andy Morahan and Eric Watson,[7] the video to the song is very simple, utilising 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".[8]
Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] | 54 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[10] | 35 |
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[11] | 74 |
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)[12] | 15 |
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[13] | 12 |
Ireland (IRMA)[14] | 13 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[15] | 8 |
Spain (AFYVE)[16] | 6 |
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[17] | 24 |
UK Singles (OCC)[18] | 19 |
US Billboard Hot 100[19] | 62 |
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[20] with "That's My Impression" | 10 |
US Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)[21] with "That's My Impression" | 37 |
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles[22] | 56 |
West Germany (Official German Charts)[23] | 17 |
As early as 1986, a Japanese-language cover version of the song was recorded by pop singer Hidemi Ishikawa.[24]
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