Actually
Album by Pet Shop Boys
Released	September 7, 1987
Recorded	1987
Genre	Synthpop
Length	48:14
Label	EMI Manhattan
Producer(s)	Pet Shop Boys,Stephen Hague, Julian Mendelesohn, Andy Richards, Shep Pettibone, David Jacob
Professional reviews
All Music Guide
Pet Shop Boys chronology
Disco (1986)	Actually (1987)	Introspective (1988)

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Actually is not much different from Pet Shop Boys' first album, Please in terms of musical style, but the production quality is noticeably better. Please is the first album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. ...

Actually housed four singles, including lead-off single "It's a Sin" and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", a duet with fellow Parlophone artist Dusty Springfield. The latter led directly to a major resurgence of interest in Springfield's earlier work. The duo scored another Number One in April 1988 with a remixed version of the album's last single, "Heart". Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... Dusty Springfield Dusty Springfield, OBE (April 16, 1939 – March 2, 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned more than forty years. ...

During this period, the Pet Shop Boys also completed a full-length motion picture called It Couldn't Happen Here. Featuring songs from the duo, it was most famous for housing 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. It Couldnt Happen Here is a Pet Shop Boys movie released in 1988. ...

Actually was rereleased in 2001 (as were most of the group's albums up to that point) as Actually/Further Listening 1987-1988. The rereleased version was not only digitally remastered but came with a second disc of B-sides, remixes done by the Pet Shop Boys and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release. In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ...

Many feel that the album 'Actually' was inspired by a tech support call with a lighting controls company. With their lights not coming on in the studio, they were told "you must actually press the switch to actually turn on the lights, actually. If that actually doesnt work, then check to see if power is actually at the panel".

Track listing

1. "One More Chance"
2. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (with Dusty Springfield)
3. "Shopping"
4. "Rent"
5. "Hit Music"
6. "It Couldn't Happen Here"
7. "It's a Sin"
8. "I Want to Wake Up"
9. "Heart"
10. "King's Cross"

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Further Listening 1987-1988

1. "I want to wake up (Breakdown mix)"
2. "Heart (Shep Pettibone version)"
3. "You know where you went wrong"
4. "One more chance (seven-inch mix)"
5. "It's a sin (Disco mix)"
6. "What have I done to deserve this? (Extended mix)"
7. "Heart (Disco mix)"
8. "A new life"
9. "Always on my mind (Demo version)"
10. "Rent (Seven-inch mix)"
11. "I want a dog"
12. "Always on my mind (Extended dance mix)"
13. "Do I have to?"
14. "Always on my mind (Dub mix)"

Personnel

• Neil Tennant
• Chris Lowe

Guest musicians

• Andy Richards - Fairlight and keyboard programming on tracks 1, 4, 5, 7 & 9
• Dusty Springfield - Guest vocals on track 2
• J.J Jeczalik - Fairlight programming on track 3
• Gary Maughan - Additional programming on track 3
• Angelo Badalamenti - Orchestra arrangement on track 6
• Blue Weaver - Fairlight programming on track 6
• Adrian Cook - Programming on track 8

UK Chart Run