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Pet Shop Boys' version of the song is one of several mentioned in the 1994 book Lives of the Great Songs.In the book Pet Shop Boys, Literally, Chris Heath recounts an incident in which TV presenter/producer Janet Street Porter raved about their performance on the "Love Me Tender" show and suggested they should release the song as a single - being completely unaware that they in fact had, and that it had been the 1987 Christmas number one.
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Joss Ackland, who appears in the movie ' It Couldn't Happen Here' also is heard on the tail end of the Extended Dance Version of this track.Neil changed the lyrics from "Maybe I didn't treat you / Quite as good as I should have ', taking out the have to make it more ungrammatical.The band was going to release this track as the b-side to ' Rent' but were convinced that it should be its own single.In 1988, a different version of the song (not quite the same as Harding's arrangement, but based on it) was released on the Introspective album, which follows the 'in my house' section with a two-stanza rap by Neil. The Phil Harding remix has a section where the lyrics of the chorus change to 'You were always on my mind / You were always in my house.' followed by a breakdown section.
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Their first choice was 'Baby Let's Play House'. The band originally performed this song on a television program called 'Love Me Tender', a tribute to Elvis Presley. Some special limited releases of Actually contained a bonus 'Always On My Mind' single, due to fan disappointment that the song wasn't a part of the album. In fact the single liner notes contained the phrase, "not from the album, actually.' It was released following ' Rent' and before ' Heart'. 'Always On My Mind' was released during the promotional period of the ' Actually' album, although the track was not on featured on the record. "Always On My Mind" is the ninth single released by the band.