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"A Red Letter Day"
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Bilingual
A-side
"A Red Letter Day"
B-side
"The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On"
"Delusions of Grandeur"
Released
17 March 1997 (1997-03-17)[1]
Length
5:09
Label
Parlophone
Songwriter(s)
Neil Tennant
Chris Lowe
Producer(s)
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Single-Bilingual" (1996)
"A Red Letter Day" (1997)
"Somewhere" (1997)
Music video
"A Red Letter Day" on YouTube
"A Red Letter Day" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 17 March 1997 as the fourth single from their sixth studio album, Bilingual (1996). The single peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, making it another top 10 single for the group. However, it then fell straight out of the UK top 40 (to number 42) the following week.[2] At the time, this was a record as the biggest such fall to ever occur in UK chart history, but it was then beaten the following year by Embrace with their single "My Weakness Is None of Your Business" (which fell from number 9 to 44 the following week).[3]
The duo were admirers of the sound of Motiv8,[citation needed] who had remixed various other artists at the time. Neil Tennant asked the man behind Motiv8 (Steve Rodway) to remix this single, even visiting Rodway at work in his studio during the remix.[citation needed] After it was finished and delivered, Tennant insisted that a synth line, which Rodway had come up with on the Motiv8 version, should be used on the Pet Shop Boys' own main mix. After unsuccessful attempts to recreate Rodway's riff, it eventually had to be sampled from the Motiv8 mix.[citation needed] Thus, as well as appearing on the Motiv8 remix, it appears on the Pet Shop Boys' main version.
^"New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 15 March 1997. p. 28.
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^"Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. 30 August 1998. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
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