Love Life (song)

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"Love Life"
Alcazar - Love Life.jpg
Single by Alcazar
from the album Alcazarized
Released9 October 2003 [1]
Genre Pop
Length3:53
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Alcazar singles chronology
"Someday"
(2003)		"Love Life"
(2003)		"This Is the World We Live In"
(2004)
Audio video
"Love Life" on YouTube

"Love Life" is a song written by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys and first released by the Swedish band Alcazar, as the fourth single from their second album, Alcazarized (2003). The song reached the top 10 in Sweden. Pet Shop Boys released their own version for Record Store Day in 2010.

Contents

Background and composition

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe wrote and recorded "Love Life" in 2001 but did not release it at that time. [2] The song was originally titled "Can I Be the One?", and the lyrics are written in the form of a personal advertisement from someone seeking companionship. [3]

Alcazar version

In 2002, Alcazar played a concert at the London Astoria and met Tennant and Lowe, who were fans of the song "Crying at the Discoteque" (2000). Andreas Lundstedt later contacted the duo about contributing a song to the next Alcazar album, and Pet Shop Boys sent him the demo of "Love Life". Alcazarized was released in May 2003. [4]

"Love Life" was released as a single in Sweden in October 2003 to promote Alcazar's fall club tour. The band performed the song on several Swedish television shows, including Fame Factory . The single was produced by Mattias Lindblom and Anders Wollbeck and included an extended version and a club mix. [1] [5] It entered the Swedish record chart at number 20 on 24 October and peaked at number 10 the following week, spending 10 weeks in the top 100. [6]

Track listing

CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Love Life"3:54
2."Love Life" (extended version)6:35
3."Love Life" (FL Rebirth club mix)9:22

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Love Life". [7]

Alcazar

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Artwork

Chart performance

Weekly chart performance for "Love Life"
Chart (2003)Peak
position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [6] 10

Pet Shop Boys version

"Love Life"
Single by Pet Shop Boys
B-side "A Powerful Friend"
Released17 April 2010
Recorded2001
Genre Pop
Length3:45
Label Parlophone
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Beautiful People"
(2009)		"Love Life"
(2010)		"Together"
(2010)

Pet Shop Boys released their own version of "Love Life" as a 7-inch single for Record Store Day on 17 April 2010. It was available only in the UK and limited to 1,000 copies. [8] The B-side was another previously unreleased song, "A Powerful Friend", which the duo had written in 1983 and had revisited for a Peel Session in 2002. Bic Hayes and Mark Refoy played guitar on the B-side track. [9] [10] Both songs were later included on Release: Further Listening 2001–2004 in 2017. [11]

Track listing

7-inch single
No.TitleLength
1."Love Life"3:45
2."A Powerful Friend"3:23

References

  1. 1 2 "Swedish single release: Love Life hits the stores". Alcazar World. 9 October 2003. Archived from the original on 19 August 2004. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Record Store Day today". petshopboys.co.uk. London. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  3. ↑ Heath, Chris (2017). Release: Further Listening 2001–2004 (booklet). Pet Shop Boys. Parlophone Records. p. 19. 0190295921149.
  4. ↑ Nunstedt, Anders (18 April 2003). "Pet Shop Boys och Alcazar har en hit tillsammans" [Pet Shop Boys and Alcazar Have a Hit Together]. Expressen (in Swedish). Stockholm. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Discography: Singles 2003". Alcazar World. 2003. Archived from the original on 24 August 2004. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Alcazar – Love Life". Singles Top 100.
  7. ↑ Alcazar (2003). Love Life (liner notes). BMG Sweden. 82876 56900 2.
  8. ↑ "Record Store Day 2010: Exclusive Release List for 17th April 2010". indierecordshop.org. 31 March 2010. Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  9. ↑ "Pet Shop Boys issuing 2 previously unreleased songs on Record Store Day 7-inch in U.K." Slicing Up Eyeballs. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "An unexpected new Pet Shop Boys single". Popjustice. London. 14 April 2010. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  11. ↑ Heath 2017, pp. 19, 30.
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