Love Comes Quickly

Album: Please (1986)
Charted: 19 62
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Songfacts®:

  • Written by Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe along with their producer Stephen Hague, this song is about how there is no escaping falling in love: "Love comes quickly whatever you do you can't stop falling." >>>
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  • In 1986, Pet Shop Boys landed #1 hit in both the US and UK with "West End Girls." In the UK (their homeland) they followed with "Love Comes Quickly," which made a more modest showing at #19. In America, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" followed "West End Girls," reaching #10, before "Love Comes Quickly" was issued, placing at #62. The group had a few more American hits but proved quite durable in the UK, where they were huge into the 2010s.
  • After "Love Comes Quickly" was released in the UK, Pet Shop Boys made the cover of the British music magazine Smash Hits, which Neil Tennant wrote for just a few years earlier. In that interview, he talked about the song, saying, "It's very angst-ridden. It's about falling in love. We wrote it about a year ago when Chris used to come down from Liverpool at the weekends and we'd go to a friend's studio in Camden Town every Saturday night."

    "I just started singing 'Love Comes Quickly' and it all just came into my head," he added. "I think the best songs are like that - they come into your head at one go."
  • At this time, Pet Shop Boys didn't tour, so they relied on music videos and TV performances to gain exposure. In America, this came in the form of MTV, which gave them a VMA nomination in 1986 for Best New Artist In A Video for "West End Girls." They didn't win (A-ha did for "Take On Me"), but performed "Love Comes Quickly" on the show, giving the song a boost.
  • Yes, the title is worth a snigger, especially if you're a teenage boy. The double-entendre was discussed in a 1992 interview with the duo in Q magazine. Neil Tennant said he didn't notice it until years later, but Chris Lowe said, "It was the first thing I thought of."

    Tennant, though, knew exactly what he was implying on their 1990 song "So Hard."

Comments: 2

  • Petshopboy1 from Atlanta, GaPSB have been to Atlanta on 7 tours and seen and met them every time...Love Comes Quickly is ABSOLUTELY brilliant live...a totally underrated song
  • Eugene from Minneapolis, MnThis is one of the best and underrated Pet Shop Boys songs ever.I loved this record from day one which was back in 1986, when this was just an LP cut.
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