Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls

"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.

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• 1988 7 Single Sire Records 7 27858
• 1988 7 Promo Single Sire Records 7 27858 A
• 1988 7 Promo Single PRO S 3281
• 1988 12 Maxi Single Sire Records 0 20963
• 1988 Promo CD Single Sire Records PRO CD 3197
• Personnel
• Official versions
• References

"Pretty Girls 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The B-side to the single is a cover of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", originally made famous as the theme from the horror movie The Exorcist.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.

A promotional video was shot and released for "Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls”; an alternate version of the video was also released using the medley edit of "Tubular Bells/Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls”. (See External links below for video)