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"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
"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.
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 ...
A version of "West End Girls" produced by Orlando had been released as an unsuccessful single that year. For their debut album Pet Shop Boys re-worked the songs in a slightly slower tempo with producer Stephen Hague (after their record company initially had suggested that they should work with producers Stock Aitken Waterman).
I Get Along (Pet Shop Boys song) I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too) I Want a Lover; I Want to Wake Up; I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing; I'm Not Scared (song) I'm with Stupid (Pet Shop Boys song) Integral (song) It Always Comes as a Surprise; It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas; It Must Be Obvious; It's a Sin; It's Alright (Pet Shop ...
The Pet Shop boys have accused Drake of singing the lyrics to their 1983 hit “West End Girls” in his new track, “All the Parties”, without permission.. In the song, which features on Drake ...
Ultimate was released to celebrate 25 years since the band's first single release "West End Girls" [2] in standard single-CD and expanded CD/DVD configurations. [3] It charted at number 27 on the UK Albums Chart on 7 November 2010, with first-week sales of 8,886 copies. [4] On the European Top 100 Albums it reached number 50 on 20 November 2010 ...
The Los Angeles Times said the Pet Shop Boys "don't deserve the cruel fate they receive here. They are purveyors of pleasant and popular bubble-gum rock who have been caught up in what is essentially a string of MTV-type numbers overlaid with a pseudo-surreal style and snatches of confounding philosophical discourse that might have something to ...