The Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981. Consisting of primary vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe,they have sold more than 50 million records worldwide,and were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.
Neil Francis Tennant is an English singer,songwriter and music journalist,and co-founder of the synth-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys,which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He was a journalist for Smash Hits,and assistant editor for the magazine in the mid-1980s.
Christopher Sean Lowe is an English musician,singer and songwriter,and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981.
Please is the debut studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,released on 24 March 1986 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI America Records in the United States. According to the duo,the album's title was chosen so that people had to go into a record shop and say "Can I have the Pet Shop Boys album,'Please'?". Please spawned four singles:"West End Girls","Opportunities ","Suburbia",and "Love Comes Quickly";"West End Girls" reached number one in both the UK and the US.
Disco is the first remix album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,released on 17 November 1986 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI America Records in the United States. Disco consists of remixes of tracks from the band's debut album Please and its respective B-sides. The album includes remixes by Arthur Baker,Shep Pettibone and the Pet Shop Boys themselves.
PopArt:The Hits is a greatest hits album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 24 November 2003 by Parlophone. The album consists of Pet Shop Boys' top 20 UK singles along with two new tracks,"Miracles" and "Flamboyant",which were also released as singles.
"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. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.
It Couldn't Happen Here is a 1988 musical film starring the British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys and based on the music from their first two studio albums Please and Actually. It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based on Actually,but it evolved into a surreal full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring Barbara Windsor,Joss Ackland,Neil Dickson and Gareth Hunt.
Results is the ninth studio album by Liza Minnelli,released in 1989. It was produced by Pet Shop Boys and Julian Mendelsohn.
"Suburbia" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was remixed and released as the fourth single from the duo's debut studio album,Please (1986),and became the band's second UK top-10 entry,peaking at number 8. "Suburbia" has drawn comparisons to the theme from ALF,which coincidentally premiered the day that the song was released.
"Paninaro" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,originally a B-side to the 1986 single "Suburbia". In 1995,a re-recording titled "Paninaro '95" was released to a wider market,to promote the duo's B-side compilation album Alternative,though only the original version was included on the compilation.
"Heart" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their second studio album,Actually (1987). It was released as the album's fourth and final single on 21 March 1988 by Parlophone. The song topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in April 1988,becoming the duo's fourth and final chart-topper to date in the United Kingdom. Its music video was directed by Jack Bond and filmed in Yugoslavia. The group had initially written the song for Madonna,though they never asked her to record it,instead keeping it for themselves.
"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys and soul singer Dusty Springfield,taken from the duo's second studio album,Actually (1987). The song was released as the second single from the album on 10 August 1987.
"I Get Along" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,released on 15 July 2002 as the second single from their eighth studio album,Release (2002). A love song,Neil Tennant has also hinted that it can also be interpreted as commentary on the then fraught relationship between British prime minister Tony Blair and New Labour architect Peter Mandelson after the latter had to resign again from the British Cabinet after a second major scandal he was involved in.
"Left to My Own Devices" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys,released in November 1988 by Parlophone as the second single from their third studio album,Introspective (1988). It was also the first track of the album. The song fared better than the album's lead single,"Domino Dancing",charting three positions higher on the UK Singles Chart,at number four. It became the first track that Pet Shop Boys recorded with an orchestra,arranged by Richard Niles. Since its release,it has become a staple of Pet Shop Boys live performances. Eric Watson directed its music video.
"DJ Culture" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their first greatest hits album,Discography:The Complete Singles Collection (1991). It was released on 14 October 1991 as the album's lead single,peaking at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. Another version of the song,remixed by the Grid and entitled "Dj culturemix",was also released as a single and reached number 40 on the UK Singles Chart. The B-side was "Music for Boys".
The Pandemonium Tour was a worldwide concert tour by British pop duo Pet Shop Boys in support of their tenth studio album Yes. The tour visited Europe,Asia and the Americas.
Pandemonium is the second live album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 15 February 2010 by Parlophone as a CD and DVD combo. It is a recording of a live concert at The O2 Arena in London on 21 December 2009,as part of the duo's Pandemonium Tour. The DVD includes the full Pandemonium show filmed by David Barnard. The sound was produced and remixed for DVD by Dave Woolley. The CD,mixed by Stuart Price,includes 17 songs from the show.
"Together" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their greatest hits album,Ultimate (2010). It was released by Parlophone as a digital download on 24 October 2010 and as a physical release on 29 November 2010.
The Most Incredible Thing is the score for the 2011 ballet of the same name,based on the eponymous 1870 fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It contains music written and performed by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. The album was released on 14 March 2011 by Parlophone.
