Anyone Can Fall in Love
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{{Infobox song
| name = Anyone Can Fall in Love
| cover = Anyone Can Fall in Love.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Anita Dobson and the Simon May Orchestra
| album = Simon's Way
| B-side = EastEnders theme tune
| released = August 1986
| recorded = 1986
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| genre = Pop
| length = 3:32
| label = BBC
| composer = Simon May and Leslie Osborne
| lyricist = Don Black{{cite web|url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/eastenders-theme-composer-getting-involved-8679913|title=Meet the man behind Eastenders' famous 'doof doof' intro|first=Jennifer|last=Morris|date=19 February 2015|access-date=18 March 2017}}
| producer = Anita Dobson, Simon May, Dave Hewson
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| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Anita Dobson
| type = singles
| prev_title =
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| title = Anyone Can Fall in Love
| year = 1986
| next_title = Talking of Love
| next_year = 1987
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"Anyone Can Fall in Love" is a song featuring words set to the EastEnders theme tune, released in 1986 by EastEnders actress Anita Dobson, who played the character of Angie Watts.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/anita-dobson-angie-doesnt-live-here-any-more-182402.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/anita-dobson-angie-doesnt-live-here-any-more-182402.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Anita Dobson: Angie doesn't live here any more...|website=Independent.co.uk |date=30 June 2002|access-date=18 March 2017}} The song was released as a single, reaching No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/24375/anita%20dobson/|title=Anita Dobson - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company|website=Official Charts |access-date=18 March 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/feature/a801841/what-are-the-highest-charting-tv-themes-of-all-time/|title=What are the biggest TV themes of all time?|website=Digital Spy |date=20 July 2016|access-date=18 March 2017}}
The song also features on the album The Simon May Collection and the Peggy's Theme EP, both released in 2010.
Single
The BBC television soap opera EastEnders was first broadcast in February 1985. The show became very popular, along with its theme tune, which was composed by Simon May; executive Leslie Osborne is credited for contractual reasons, but did not contribute to the composition.{{cite book |first=Simon |last=May |title=Doof Doof: My Life in Music |year=2015 |publisher=Austin Macauley Publishers |isbn=978-1785546372 |pages=54–5}} Don Black was commissioned to add lyrics.
In July 2016, it was revealed that the track was the 12th highest-charting TV theme of all time in the UK.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a801841/what-are-the-highest-charting-tv-themes-of-all-time/|title=What are the biggest TV themes of all time?|first=Tom|last=Eames|date=20 July 2016|website=Digital Spy|access-date=19 December 2018}}
Covers
Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed a cover of the song at a Soho House venue in White City in 2018
{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/a854708/sophie-ellis-bextor-sings-eastenders-theme/|title = Watch Sophie Ellis-Bextor sing the EastEnders theme| website=Digital Spy |date = 13 April 2018}}
In popular culture
The single was parodied by Victoria Wood, as an announcement at the end of an edition of Acorn Antiques, within Wood's TV show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, stated that a single titled "Anyone Can Break A Vase", sung by Miss Babs, was now on sale.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/04/21/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-victoria-wood/ |title=20 things you didn’t know about Victoria Wood|first=Michael|last= Hogan|date=21 April 2016 |work=The Daily Telegraph }}
Charts
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| Chart (1986)
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| {{singlechart|Ireland2|9|artist=Anita Dobson |song=Anyone Can Fall in Love}} |
| {{singlechart|UKsinglesbyname|4|artist=Anita Dobson|artistid=24375}} |
References
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Category:Songs with lyrics by Don Black (lyricist)