| "Can You Forgive Her?" | ||||
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| Single by Pet Shop Boys | ||||
| from the album Very | ||||
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| Released | 1 June 1993[1][2] | |||
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| Length | 3:53 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
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| Producer(s) | Pet Shop Boys | |||
| Pet Shop Boys singles chronology | ||||
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| "Can You Forgive Her?" on YouTube | ||||
"Can You Forgive Her?" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, Very (1993). The lyrics describe in the second person a young man's humiliation when his girlfriend accuses him of still being in love with a childhood friend; the woman is "not prepared to share you with a memory", and is "going to go and get herself a real man instead". The title of the song derives from the Anthony Trollope novel of the same name.
"Can You Forgive Her?" was released on 1 June 1993 by Parlophone as the lead single from Very, and became the duo's 13th top-10 single on the UK Singles Chart, debuting and peaking at number seven. Despite failing to enter the US Billboard Hot 100, it became a number-one single on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. The song reached the top 10 in Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden. Its music video was directed by Howard Greenhalgh.
The second B-side, "What Keeps Mankind Alive?", appears on the 2001 re-release of Introspective, having originally been recorded for a BBC Radio programme in 1988 narrated by Sting celebrating the 60th anniversary of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical The Threepenny Opera.
- ^ "Can You Forgive Her?". petshopboys.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 29 May 1993. p. 23.
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