“Heart” by Pet Shop Boys

"Heart" closed out the singles from Actually, the Pet Shop Boys' 1987 second album, arriving on Parlophone in March 1988 as the fourth and last of them. It had been kicking around since the sessions for their first album, Please, at Advision Studios: Neil Tennant came up with the opening verse on his way in, Chris Lowe worked out the music at the piano, and Phyllis Nelson's "I Like You" was the spark. They thought about handing it to hi-NRG singer Hazell Dean, figured it would suit Madonna too, then wisely kept it. Lowe and Andy Richards play keyboards, Tennant sings, and Julian Mendelsohn mixed it.

It sat at No. 1 in the UK for three weeks that April, the duo's fourth chart-topper there and still their latest. Jack Bond shot the video in Slovenia, with Ian McKellen as a vampire.

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