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."
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."
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