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It Couldn't Happen Here is a 1988 musical film starring the British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys and based on the music from their first two studio albums Please and Actually. It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based on Actually , but it evolved into a surreal, full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring Barbara ...
"King's Cross" is a Pet Shop Boys song, written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant [1] for their second studio album, Actually (1987). The title refers to the London railway station and the surrounding area that share the name King's Cross.
"It Couldn't Happen Here" 1987 Actually: Tennant, Lowe, Ennio Morricone "It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas" 1997 Nightlife: Further Listening 1996-2000: Tennant, Lowe Originally issued as a fan club single in 1997. A re-recorded version is on the 2009 Christmas (EP) and on Yes: Further Listening 2008-2010. "It Must Be Obvious" 1990 Alternative
During this period Pet Shop Boys also completed a full-length motion picture called It Couldn't Happen Here. [27] Featuring songs by the duo, it was most famous for containing the video for "Always on My Mind" (starring Joss Ackland as a blind priest), which—while not on Actually—was released as a single during this period. [28]
Tennant wrote a trio of songs about his best friend from Newcastle, Christopher Dowell, who died from the disease in 1989: [220] "It Couldn't Happen Here" alludes to their early complacency, [222] "Being Boring" is an elegy to their friendship, [223] and "Your Funny Uncle" describes his funeral. [224] [225]
Although many of the album's songs were released in other forms, this compilation only features the seven-inch single versions. Pet Shop Boys also released a companion video compilation, Videography, consisting of the music videos for each of the songs on Discography, arranged in a slightly different order.
"Being Boring" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in November 1990 by Parlophone as the second single from their fourth studio album, Behaviour (1990). The song was written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant , and produced by them with German producer Harold Faltermeyer .
Ackland appeared in the Pet Shop Boys' 1988 film It Couldn't Happen Here, and in the video for their version of the song Always on My Mind, which was taken from the film. [17] Several years later, he said in an interview with the Radio Times that he had appeared with the band purely because his grandchildren liked their music. [citation needed]