Pet Shop Boys - before, 1996

"There's a story of a man who loved too much…" – As noted above, Neil has asserted that these words refer to U.S. former football star and actor O.J. Simpson, who—on account of being on trial for the murder of his wife—was very much in the news at the time the Boys were writing this song. They also echo the tragic hero's own epitaph for himself in Shakepeare's Othello, when he described himself as having "loved not wisely but too well."