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Love Comes Quickly

"Love Comes Quickly"
PSB Love Comes Quickly.jpg
7" single cover
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Please
B-side "That's My Impression"
Released 24 February 1986
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1985
Genre Synthpop
Length 4:18
Label Parlophone / EMI
Writer(s) Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Stephen Hague
Producer(s) Stephen Hague
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"West End Girls"
(second release)
(1985)
"Love Comes Quickly"
(1986)
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
(second release)
(1986)

"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, and cited as one the band's own favourite songs, its chart performance was disappointing given that it followed the worldwide number one "West End Girls". It peaked at number 19 in the UK in March 1986.

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

Producer Stephen Hague receives a co-writing credit for writing the first two chords of the middle section of the song.Andy Mackay of Roxy Music plays the saxophone parts towards the end of the song.

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. Later, in 2003, new remixes by Blank & Jones were produced for the promotion of the singles collection PopArt.

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 2006 comic strip from webcomic Scary Go Round.


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