Heart (Pet Shop Boys song)

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"Heart"
"Heart" cover
Single by Pet Shop Boys
B-side(s) "I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)"
Released March 21, 1988
Format 7", 12", cassette, CD
Genre Synthpop
Length 4:16
Label Parlophone / EMI
Writer(s) Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe
Producer(s) Andy Richards & Pet Shop Boys
Chart positions
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Always on My Mind"
(1987)		 "Heart"
(1987)		 "Domino dancing"
(1988)

Heart was a song recorded by Pet Shop Boys which reached #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in April 1988.

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[edit] Song

Written By Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant, Heart was the fourth and final single from the duo's second 'proper' album Actually. Released in March 1988 it rocketed to the top of the charts to become the duo's fourth, and last, UK number one single. It was also a massive hit across Europe.

The genesis of the song goes back to the sessions for the duo's first album Please in early 1986 with Shep Pettibone. Originally the duo had planned to offer it to Hi-NRG singer Hazell Dean or — more notoriously — Madonna, but they ultimately kept it for themselves. The duo's version of the song was intended to be used in the Steven Spielberg produced film Innerspace, but the dance sequence it was intended for was at the wrong tempo for the song. The song was originally called "Heartbeat", but was changed after Culture Club drummer Jon Moss announced the formation of a group Heartbeat UK.

The lyrics are noted for being more traditional than most Pet Shop Boys songs, being a straightforward declaration of love — the norm for pop songs.

The song was re-recorded for Actually with producer Andy Richards, and was mixed by Julian Mendelsohn. The single remix is an edit of the Richards' version with the use of wah wah guitar, to make it sound very 70's.

[edit] Music video

Directed by Jack Bond, director of the band's 1987 film It Couldn't Happen Here, the "Heart" video is based on the 1926 film Nosferatu. The video opens with Tennant and his bride (Danijela Čolić) being driven to a castle with and Lowe as his chauffeur. As he's going to bed with his bride, the Vampire, played by Ian McKellen, spies them. Later he seduces the bride and Tennant is turned to stone, finally Lowe drives Nosferatu and his bride away. The video was shot in Yugoslavia.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] 7": Parlophone / R 6177 (UK)

  1. "Heart (Single Version)" - 4:16
  2. "I get excited (you get excited too)" - 4:53

[edit] 12": Parlophone / 12 R 6177 (UK)

  1. "Heart (disco mix)" - 8:27
  2. "I get excited (you get excited too)" - 4:53
  3. "Heart (dance mix)" - 6:08
  • also released on MC (TCR 6177) and CD (CDR 6177)

[edit] 12": Parlophone / 12 RX 6177 (UK)

  1. "Heart (12" remix)" - 8:55
  2. "Heart (dub mix)" - 5:15
  3. "I get excited (you get excited too)" - 4:53


Preceded by
"Don't Turn Around" by Aswad		 UK number one single
April 3, 1988		 Succeeded by
"Theme from S'Express" by S'Express
Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant | Chris Lowe
Discography
Albums: Please | Actually | Introspective | Behaviour | Very | Bilingual | Nightlife | Release | Fundamental
Soundtracks and scores: Closer to Heaven (Original Cast Recording) | Battleship Potemkin
Remix albums: Disco | Disco 2 | Disco 3
Compilations: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection | Alternative | PopArt: The Hits | Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys
Live: Concrete
Singles: "West End girls" | "Love comes quickly" | "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" | "Suburbia" | "It's a Sin" | "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" | "Rent" | "Always On My Mind" | "Heart" | "Domino dancing" | "Left to my own devices" | "It's alright" | "So Hard" | "Being Boring" | "Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" | "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" | "Jealousy" | "DJ Culture" | "Was it worth it?" | "Can you forgive her?" | "Go West" | "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" | "Liberation" | "Yesterday, when I was mad" | "Paninaro '95" | "Before" | "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" | "Single-Bilingual" | "Somewhere" | "I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more" | "New York City boy" | "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" | "Home and dry" | "I get along" | "London" | "Miracles" | "Flamboyant" | "I'm with Stupid" | "Minimal" | "Numb" | "She's Madonna"
Related Articles
Other projects: It Couldn't Happen Here | Reputation | Results | Spaghetti Records | Closer to Heaven
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