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Pet Shop Boys - Wikipedia. Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1. Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals). Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 5. UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records.[8] Three- time Brit Award winners and six- time Grammy nominees, since 1. Top 3. 0 singles, 2. Top 1. 0 hits in the UK Singles Chart, including four UK number ones: "West End Girls" (also number one on the US Billboard Hot 1.

It's a Sin", an acclaimed cover of "Always on My Mind" and "Heart". Other hit songs include a cover of "Go West", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (satire of Thatcherism) and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in a duet with Dusty Springfield. At the 2. 00. 9 Brit Awards in London, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2. 01. 6, Billboard magazine named Pet Shop Boys the number one dance duo/group over the 4. In 2. 01. 7 the duo received NME's Godlike Genius Award. Contents. 1History.

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Formation and early years: 1. Please and remix album Disco: 1. Actually and It Couldn't Happen Here: 1. Introspective, Results, Behaviour, Performance tour and Discography: 1. Very, Disco 2, Discovery tour and Alternative: 1. Bilingual, Nightlife and the musical Closer to Heaven: 1.

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Release, Disco 3, Pop. Art, Live 8, Back to Mine and Battleship Potemkin OST: 2. Fundamental, touring, Disco 4, Catalogue, Concrete and Cubism: 2. Yes, Pandemonium Tour, Ultimate and Ballet: 2. Format, Elysium, Electric, leaving Parlophone, and A Man from the Future: 2. Super and Catalogue: 2.

Style and image. 3Influence. Sexuality. 5Members. Discography. 7Tours.

Equipment. 9Awards and nominations. References. 11. External links. History[edit]Formation and early years: 1. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe met in an electronics shop on Kings Road in Chelsea, London, in August 1. Recognising a mutual interest in dance music, they began to work together on material, first in Tennant's flat in Chelsea and from 1. Camden Town. It was during those early years that several future hit songs were created, including "It's a Sin", "West End Girls", "Rent" and "Jealousy". Initially Tennant and Lowe performed as West End because of their love of London's West End, but later they came up with the name Pet Shop Boys, derived from friends of theirs who worked in a pet shop in Ealing.[1.

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Their big break came in August 1. Tennant was assigned by Smash Hits to interview The Police in New York. The duo were obsessed with a stream of Hi- NRG records made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, simply known as Bobby O. According to Tennant: "I thought: well, if I've got to go and see The Police play, then I'm also going to have lunch with Bobby O." They shared a cheeseburger and carrot cake, at a restaurant called the Applejack Diner, on 1.

August (two years to the day since Tennant and Lowe had met) and, after hearing a demo tape that Tennant had brought along with him, Orlando suggested making a record with the Pet Shop Boys.[1. From 1. 98. 3–8. 4, Orlando recorded 1. Tennant and Lowe including; "West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money"), "It's A Sin", "I Want A Lover", "I Get Excited", "Two Divided By Zero", "Rent", "Later Tonight", "Pet Shop Boys", "A Man Could Get Arrested" and "One More Chance".[1. In April 1. 98. 4, the Orlando- produced "West End Girls" was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On 2 November, it was voted "Screamer of the Week" by listeners of Long Island, New York radio station WLIR.[1. It was a minor dance hit in Belgium and France,[1.

United Kingdom as a 1. Please and remix album Disco: 1. In March 1. 98. 5, after long negotiations, Pet Shop Boys cut their contractual ties with Bobby O, with a settlement giving Bobby O significant royalties for future sales. Hiring manager. Tom Watkins, they signed with the London- based Parlophonelabel. In April, Tennant left Smash Hits magazine - where he had progressed to the position of deputy editor - and in July, a new single, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", was released, reaching number 1. UK. The B- side to this single, "In the Night", later resurfaced, in a longer remixed version, as the opening track to the duo's first remix album, Disco, in 1. This version was also used as the theme for the UK television series The Clothes Show.[1.

Unperturbed by the low chart position, the band returned to the studio in August to re- record "West End Girls" with producer Stephen Hague. Released in October 1. January 1. 98. 6, it achieved the top spot. It was subsequently number one in the United States, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Israel, New Zealand and Norway and sold an estimated 1. It remains the most- heard Pet Shop Boys song to date.

After the success of "West End Girls", Pet Shop Boys released a follow- up single, "Love Comes Quickly", on 2. February 1. 98. 6. The single reached number 1. Watch Diana, Our Mother: Her Life And Legacy Online Forbes.

UK Singles Chart and was followed by their debut album, Please, on 2. March. In June 1. European tour; however, their plans for a theatrical extravaganza proved to be too expensive and the tour was cancelled. Please started Pet Shop Boys' penchant for choosing one- word album titles, which Neil Tennant has since stated is now a Pet Shop Boys "signature thing", akin to e. New versions of their second single, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", and the album track "Suburbia" were also released in 1. Disco. In September 1. Pet Shop Boys performed "Love Comes Quickly" and "West End Girls" at the 1.

MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.[1. Actually and It Couldn't Happen Here: 1. Pet Shop Boys receiving both BRIT Awards and Ivor Novello Awards for "West End Girls".

Later, on 1. 5 June, they released what became their second number one single, "It's a Sin". The single caused some controversy: Tennant's school, St. Cuthbert's Grammar School, in Newcastle upon Tyne, chastised him in the press, while Jonathan King accused them of plagiarising the Cat Stevens song "Wild World".

Pet Shop Boys later sued King and won damages, which were donated to charity. The video to "It's a Sin" also saw their first collaboration with director Derek Jarman. A sample of "It's a Sin", the lead single from Pet Shop Boys' 1. Actually. Problems playing this file? See media help. The continued success of "It's a Sin" was followed by the release of "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" on 1. August. Co- written with Allee Willis and also featuring Dusty Springfield on vocals, the single reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and the U. S. Billboard Hot 1.

Although the duo had wanted to release this track on their debut album, they had been unable to track down Springfield and were reluctant to record it with any other female singer, despite their record company's suggestions. Springfield's manager finally contacted them in 1. Please, and towards the end of that year, she travelled to London to record "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" with them. It was the first track to be recorded for the duo's second album. Pet Shop Boys had been told that Springfield was difficult to work with and even that she could no longer sing; however, her performance on the track put any such concerns to rest and they began a collaboration with her, which lasted until the end of the decade. Included on their second album Actually, the song became a massive worldwide hit and resurrected Springfield's career, leading to her 1. Reputation, on which Pet Shop Boys were major contributing writers and producers.

This duet was also the start of a series of collaborations with high- profile musicians, going on throughout the band's career. Also in August 1. Pet Shop Boys appeared on Love Me Tender, a UK television programme, on ITV, commemorating the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. They were asked to perform one of their favourite Elvis tracks and they narrowed it down to two options, "Baby Let's Play House" and "Always on My Mind", eventually settling on the latter.