Book Of Love – Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls / Tubular Bells (12" Extended Mix) 1988

Engineer [Remix Engineer] – Bob Brockmann
Keyboards, Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Bob Brockmann, Scott Blackwell
Written-By – Theodore Ottaviano
© 1988 Sire Records

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"Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls" is the fifth single released by the American synthpop band Book of Love. The song was the first single released prior to the band's second album Lullaby in 1988.

"Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls" became the band's highest charting single at no. 90 in the Billboard Hot 100, and its only moment crossing over into mainstream pop. In the dance clubs, the song was a smash, and made it to no. 5 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, spending 11 weeks on the chart.

"Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls" became one of the first songs ever to address the issue of the AIDS epidemic, featuring the lyrics of "strangers in the night exchanging glances, but sex is dangerous, I don't take my chances...safe sex, safe sex."
"We talked about AIDS at a time when people were not talking about it." -Susan Ottaviano

The B-side to the single is a cover of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", originally made famous as the theme from the horror movie The Exorcist. For the track, the band sampled band member Lauren Roselli crying "Mother, make it stop!", channeling Linda Blair's role as Regan from the movie. For the 12" release of the single, "Tubular Bells" and "Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls" were mixed together as a fourteen-minute medley by Scott Blackwell and Bob Brockmann. The album Lullaby also opens with a shorter version of "Tubular Bells", which flows seamlessly into "Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls", the second track on the album.

Lyric:
When I'm alone
and you're away
I just close my eyes
and I drift away
your warm body
is what I'm without
I just close my eyes
and I dream about

Pretty boys and pretty girls
pretty boys and pretty girls
(when I'm without)
pretty boys
(I dream about)
pretty girls

Stranges in the night
exchanging glances
but sex is dangerous
I don't take my chances
the boys I meet
say I look lonely
but I just walk on my
because they're only

Pretty boys and pretty girls
pretty boys and pretty girls
(when I'm without)
pretty boys
(I dream about)
pretty girls

In this day and age
in a city full of fear
with you by my side
together we can show we care

Spreading joy to the world
to every boy and every girl

Pretty boys and pretty girls
pretty boys and pretty girls
(what will we show?)
spreading joy
(where will it go?)
to the world