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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.
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.
After the success of "West End Girls", Pet Shop Boys released a follow-up single, "Love Comes Quickly", on 24 February 1986. The single reached number nineteen on the UK Singles Chart and was followed by their debut album, Please, on 24 March. In June 1986, the band announced a tour of Europe and America; however, their plans for a theatrical ...
Drake’s song ‘All the Parties’ includes the lyrics: ‘East End boys and West End girls’
British synth-pop group the Pet Shop Boys are the latest to call out Drake for allegedly not getting permission to use their lyrics in his newly-dropped “For All the Dogs” record. PSB issued a ...
"Pet Shop Boys" 1984 Tennant, Lowe, Orlando B-side of the original 1984 single of "West End Girls." [48] "Playing in the Streets" 2017 Nightlife: Further Listening 1996-2000: Tennant, Lowe "The Pop Kids" 2016 Super: Tennant, Lowe First single from the album. "Positive Role Model" 2002 Disco 3: Tennant, Lowe, Barry White, Tony Sepe, Peter Radcliffe
Pet Shop Boys signed with Parlophone, a subsidiary of EMI Records, in March 1985. [10] By that time, Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant had been writing songs together for over three years. Their music was influenced by Italian disco , the emerging American hip-hop scene, and American producer Bobby Orlando 's lo-fi electronic dance music .
The ninth Pet Shop Boys studio album, Fundamental, came in May 2006, reaching number five in the UK. Also in 2006, Concrete was released, a live album recorded at the Mermaid Theatre , London. Released in UK in March 2009, Yes , was a critical success and hit number four, their highest album chart peak in more than a decade.