Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind - Piano Tutorial - Synthesia Cover

Beginner? How to play Always On My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys on piano , a cover of the Elvis classic. In 1987, Pet Shop Boys performed a synthpop version of "Always on My Mind" on Love Me Tender, an ITV network television special commemorating the tenth anniversary of Presley&death, in which various popular contemporary acts performed cover versions of his hits. Their performance was so well-received that the duo decided to record the song and release it as a single. This version became the UK&Christmas number one single that year and topped the charts for four weeks in total. It is their best selling single in the official UK Singles Chart. The Pet Shop Boys version introduces a harmonic variation not present in the original version. In the original the ending phrase "always on my mind" is sung to a IV-V7-I cadence (C-D7-G). The Pet Shop Boys extend this cadence by adding two further chords: C-D7-Gm7/B♭-C-G (i.e. a progression of IV-V7-i7b-IV-I).[citation needed] In November 2004, The Daily Telegraph newspaper placed the version at number two in a list of the fifty greatest cover versions of all time.[15] In the video for Pet Shop Boys&version of "Always on My Mind" (an excerpt from their surreal music film It Couldn&Happen Here), Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are seated in the front of a taxi cab, when an eccentric passenger gets in, played by notable British actor Joss Ackland. At the end of the song, he gets out of the car, which drives away. Standing alone, he...