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The Pet Shop Boys remix of the David Bowie song "Hallo Spaceboy" featured Tennant on backing vocals and was released in the UK on 19 February 1996. [69] Pet Shop Boys then joined Bowie during his performance of the song at the 1996 Brit Awards ceremony, as well as an appearance on the Top of the Pops television programme.
This is a comprehensive list of songs recorded by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys.The list includes officially released songs that have been performed by the band. The list consists of mostly studio and BBC recordings; remixes and live recordings are not listed, unless the song has only been released in one of the two formats.
The accompanying music video for the song was directed by British and Scottish directors Howard Greenhalgh and Bob Spiers. [7] It features the Pet Shop Boys, wearing white suits, white hats and sunglasses, performing while Absolutely Fabulous characters Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) dance around them. Clips from the ...
"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 Pet Shop Boys also received the BPI's award for "Outstanding Contribution to British Music", at the 2009 Brit Awards ceremony. [7] In December 2009, they released an EP of covers, remixes, and new material, titled Christmas .
"Being Boring" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in November 1990 by Parlophone as the second single from their fourth studio album, Behaviour (1990). The song was written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant , and produced by them with German producer Harold Faltermeyer .
The song also helped revive Springfield's career and led to an increase of sales and interest in her previous songs. The single made it to number 1 on the Irish singles chart, where it was Pet Shop Boys' second number 1 hit in the space of just six weeks. [citation needed] In the UK, the song is the fourth most streamed Pet Shop Boys song of ...
"Violence" was later re-recorded by the Pet Shop Boys for a charity concert at The Haçienda nightclub in 1992. This version, known as the 'Haçienda version', was released as one of the B-sides to " I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing " and was then made available on the B-sides album Alternative and on Very: Further Listening 1992-1994 .