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Here, he sounds as he's sleepwalking and turning out product for the first time in his career (at least the early Liberty recordings were a hungry attempt at hits).

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With 'Always on My Mind' and, to a lesser extent, 'Let It Be Me,' it works because his production style suits the songs and Nelson sings well, but 'Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,' 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' (complete with vocals from Waylon Jennings), and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' are all flat readings, never showing the spark in either delivery or arrangement that marks Nelson as one of popular music's great interpretive singers. Full and accurate LYRICS for Youre Always On My Mind from Gallery: Honey Ive got you what more do I need, My life is complete and satisfied, Girl. This is uniformly pleasant, but it's also rather straight-jacketed, hemmed in by Moman's sterile, synth-heavy productions. Listening to it now, all that success seems undeserved since the album not only plays as the country-pop record Willie avoided making all these years, but by consisting primarily of familiar rock covers, it also plays as pandering to the mass audience he's achieved. At the time, it was a huge, huge hit - his biggest ever, actually, spending 22 weeks at the top of the country charts, selling over four million copies, launching a platinum single with the title track (which reached number five on the pop charts), and winning the CMA's Album of the Year award. With Always on My Mind, he teams with producer Chips Moman and embarks on a period of pernicious predictability, giving himself completely over to Moman, who moves him toward rock covers and adult contemporary pop with this record. Sometimes, it could fall a little flat, particularly when he kept replicating Stardust, but that was part of the charm of Nelson's unpredictability. Throughout the late '70s, Nelson's freewheeling, organically eclectic music was not just the biggest thing in country, it was also some of its best, most adventurous music.

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Scenes from the band's movie release, ' It Couldn't Happen Here' and featuring actor Joss Ackland as the spooky murderer.Whether intentionally or not, the first album after a greatest-hits collection always raises the curtain on a new era, and in Willie Nelson's case, the difference between the era recapped on 1981's Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) and the one started with 1982's Always on My Mind is startling.

Joss Ackland as the spooky killer, from Always On My Mind video It was actually written by the little-known team of Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Carson Thompson, originally for Brenda Lee. An apparently common misconception is that the song was written by Willie Nelson, whose 1982 recording was the biggest US hit version of the song.Interviewed for the book (or more precisely, for the newpaper column on which it was based), Neil Tennant notes that the song's lyrical perspective is 'a typical country music sentiment, really - that the man should be a bastard.' Pet Shop Boys' version of the song is one of several mentioned in the 1994 book Lives of the Great Songs.

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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.

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. 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.