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Dancing” was released in 1988 as the second single of “Introspective”,
the third studio album of the band. The artwork was designed by Mark Farrow
using a photo of Neil & Chris on holiday in Miami Beach, USA taken by
their friend Peter Andreas, who also inspired the name of the song using
the phrase ‘domino dancing’ in a holiday on the Caribbean. The photo is
a little bit slant on purpose, so Neil & Chris decided to leave it that
way. The cover didn’t show nor the name of the band neither the song title
as they did before with “Suburbia” a couple years ago. |
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back cover on all formats (cassette, 7”, 12” & CD) showed the information
read-out from a mixing desk’s computer over a grey background; the only
vacation between the different formats was the color of the computer’s
info: purple for the cassette, green for the CD, red for the 7” and
blue for the 12”. Both 7” & 12” vinyls had a limited edition double
sleeve release where the inner sleeve had more info from the mixing
desk computer showing 48 tracks used on the recording of the song. The
7” release included radio versions of “Domino Dancing” and the new B
Side “Don Juan” while the other formats included the ‘Disco Mix’ (same
version as in “Introspective”) and ‘Alternative Mix’ for “Domino Dancing”
and the ‘Disco Mix’ for “Don Juan”.
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world-wide release of “Domino Dancing” didn’t show a lot of changes
in the cover artwork, just a few countries added the name of the band
and song title in the cover, usually on a sticker and sometimes in a box
printed at the top of the cover. However, some promotional vinyls explore
different options (probably because of marketing purposes) and started
becoming more relevant for fans and collectors like the UK 12” promo,
issued in a generic Parlophone-EMI sleeve; in Brasil the 12” Promo was
issued in a cut-out red sleeve with a sticker in the top left corner with
the coloured bars from “Introspective” and black type with titles and
credits; in Philippines a similar 12” was issued with a sticker on the
top right corner showing a cropped image of the van at the beach; the
Japanese 7” vinyl had the same coloured bars as “Introspective” for the
whole front cover with the black box in the middle with the legend “Pet
Shop Boys - Domino Dancing / Don Juan”; in Mexico the 7” promo was labeled
with the Spanish translation “El Baile del Dominó”; and finally, in the
US a promo CD was issued in a jewel box with the same cover just adding
the name of the band in the bottom section of the photo and omitting the
B Side. |
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Other comercial releases included a 3” CD for Austria, Germany and Switzerland
with the regular cover and a similar layout in the back cover with credits,
this CD was part of a series of 3” CDs in the “Introspective” era including
“Left to my own devices” and two releases of “It’s alright”; in Japan
were also released a 3” CD in a large box, a common format for this country.
Finally, a second 12” Remix Single were released in the UK including “Domino
Dancing (Base Remix)” and Demo versions for “Domino Dancing” and “Don
Juan”. The photo used on the artwork was taken in Miami Beach also with
a Polaroid camera showing Neil & Chris outside the famous Carlyle Hotel,
part of the Art-Deco architecture of the city that now a days is still
in place and it’s a must-do visit for fans travelling here. The same artwork
was used for the 6” label on the 3x12” Special Edition of “Introspective”
for the “Domino Dancing” side. |
