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"West End Girls" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe , the song was released twice as a single. The song's lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life in London which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot 's poem The Waste Land .
The band was formed in Vancouver by producers John Dexter and John Livingston, and consisted of three teenaged girls, Camille Henderson, Aimee MacKenzie and Silvana Petrozzi. After several months of performing lessons with Henderson's father Bill Henderson , the lead singer of rock group Chilliwack , the trio recorded and released their debut ...
West End Girls" was released in October, and the single climbed to the top of charts as they went on to record the rest of the album. Please was made in 10 weeks, between November 1985 and January 1986, at Advision Studios in London.
West End Girls" is the name of a popular song by the Pet Shop Boys. West End Girls may also refer to: West End Girls, a book by Barbara Tate; West End Girls (Canadian band), a 1990s girl group, and their self-titled album; West End Girls (Swedish band), a Pet Shop Boys cover band "West End Girls", a season four episode of Degrassi: The Next ...
West End Girls are a Swedish tribute synth-pop band performing cover versions of songs by English electronic/pop music act the Pet Shop Boys.Hailing from Stockholm, the duo originally consisted of Isabelle Erkendal and Rosanna Jirebeck, but Jirebeck left the group in 2008 and was replaced by Erkendal's cousin Emmeli Erkendal.
The duo's debut single, "West End Girls", was first released in 1984 but failed to chart in most regions. However, the song was entirely re-recorded in late 1985, and this newly recorded version became their first number-one single, topping the UK Singles Chart , Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Singles Chart .
His claims were promoted in advance of a book about the case he was due to publish with John Blake Publishing, titled The West End Girls. [65] [66] A documentary based on this book and promoting Sutton's claims was also due to be released in 2022, titled West End Girls: The Search for a Serial Killer. [66]
"West End Girls" and "Heart" by Pet Shop Boys spent a combined total of five weeks at number one in 1986 and 1988, respectively. The Rolling Stones' rendition of "Harlem Shuffle" spent a week at number one in April 1986. "Venus" by Bananarama topped the New Zealand Singles Chart for all four chart weeks of September 1986.