What Have I Done to Deserve This? (song)

"What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
Single by Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield
from the album Actually
B-side"A New Life"
Released10 August 1987
Recorded1986
StudioSarm West and Advision (London)
Genre
Length4:19
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Stephen Hague
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"It's a Sin"
(1987)		 "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
(1987)		 "Rent"
(1987)
Dusty Springfield singles chronology
"Sometimes Like Butterflies"
(1985)		 "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
(1987)		 "Something in Your Eyes"
(1987)
Music video
"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" on YouTube

"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" is a 1987 song by Pet Shop Boys featuring Dusty Springfield. It is the second single from their second studio album Actually. It went to number 2 in the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden, Iceland, Finland and the Netherlands, number 1 in Ireland, number 6 in New Zealand, number 9 in Norway, number 3 in Canada, number 4 in Germany, number 22 in Australia and number 7 in Italy.

Track listings

  • 7" Parlophone / R 6163 (UK)
  1. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" – 4:19
  2. "A New Life" – 4:55
  • 12" Parlophone / 12 R 6163 (UK)
  1. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (Extended Mix) – 6:53
  2. "A New Life" – 4:55
  3. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (Disco Mix) – 8:13

also available on CD (Parlophone / CD R 6163)

  • 12" EMI-Manhattan / V-56080 (US - First Issue)
  1. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (Disco Mix) – 8:17
  2. "Rent" (Extended Mix) – 7:06
  • 12" EMI-Manhattan / V-56080 (US - Second Issue)
  1. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (The Shep Pettibone Remix) – 8:28
  2. "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (Dub Mix) – 6:53
  3. "Rent" (The François Kevorkian Remix) – 7:04
  4. "I Want a Dog" – 4:48

References

  1. ↑ Mitchell, Matt (July 21, 2023). "The 50 Greatest Synth-Pop Albums of All Time". Paste. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ Breihan, Tom (April 16, 2021). "The Number Ones: Exposé's "Seasons Change". Stereogum. Retrieved November 10, 2023. The Pet Shop Boys and comeback kid Dusty Springfield's soulfully deadpan synthpop banger "What Have I Done To Deserve This" peaked at #2 behind "Seasons Change
  3. ↑ "You Say It's Your Birthday: Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys". MTV. 3 October 1997. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
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