"Heart"
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
#1 (UK Singles Chart)
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Always on My Mind" (1987)	"Heart" (1987)	"Domino Dancing" (1988)

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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. Please is the first album by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. ... Shep Pettibone is a record producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ, one of the most prolific of the 1980s. ... Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music which was popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s and remains popular today. ... Hazell Dean in 1991 Hazell Dean (born October 27, 1958 in Essex) is a British singer, composer and producer. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film director. ... Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. ... Culture Club was a popular 1980s British pop group, perhaps most noticeable for their gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... Jon Moss (full name Jonathan Aubrey Moss) (born September 11, 1957) is the former drummer of the bands Culture Club, London, Adam and the Ants, and The Damned. ...

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. Wah-wah is an imitative word (or onomatopoeia) for the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness, sounding much like a human voice saying the syllable wah. ...

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, newly married, 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. It Couldnt Happen Here is a Pet Shop Boys movie released in 1988. ... Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror in German) is a German Expressionist film shot in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ... Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE, (born May 25, 1939) is a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all South Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for the three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...

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References

• Interviews: Pet Shop Boys. Remember the Eighties (March 2004). Retrieved on 2006-06-29.
• Heath, Chris (2001). "Heart". In Actually / Further Listening 1987-1988 [CD liner notes]. London: Pet Shop Boys Partnership.
• Longmire, Ernie and Steffen Gärtner (1989-2006). Pet Shop Boys: Heart (TXT). Gardner's Pet Shop Boys Discography. Gardner Publishing Ltd. Retrieved on 2006-09-10.
• Raggett, Ned. Heart. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2006-09-10.