It features former Royal Ballet star Ivan Putrov, animated films created by Tal Rosner,[52] and orchestrations by German composer Sven Helbig, who worked with the band in 2005 as a co-producer for Battleship Potemkin. 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The Fundamental tour ended in Bucharest, Romania, in November 2007. In 1993, when promoting their Very album, they wore brightly-coloured costumes and used state-of-the-art computer technology to place themselves in a modern computer graphic world. The duo's fifth studio album, Very, followed on 27 September and is the only Pet Shop Boys album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. In 1999, many of the tracks recorded ended up on the duo's seventh studio album, Nightlife, which included the Top 20 singles "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More" and "New York City Boy", the Top 10 hit "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk", "Closer to Heaven"—which would later become the title of Pet Shop Boys' musical—as well a duet with Kylie Minogue, "In Denial", about a father coming out to his daughter. Following a live stint on the John Peel show on Radio 1, Pet Shop Boys released Disco 3, in February 2003. on 10 August. 1 Dance Club Songs Artist". Later, on 15 June, they released what became their second number one single, "It's a Sin". A 30 second sample from "West End Girls", the Stephen Hague remake. Subsequent singles released from the album were "Did You See Me Coming?" The week that Fundamental was released, a documentary, titled Pet Shop Boys – A Life in Pop, was broadcast on Channel 4, directed by George Scott and produced by Nick de Grunwald. “And there’s lots of crime around King’s Cross – prostitution, drug addicts, and a lot of tramps come up to you there. [78], On 21 January 2016, Pet Shop Boys announced that their thirteenth album, Super, would be released on 1 April. The most notable remixes were by Gui Boratto, Juergen Paape and Mark Reeder, who also made a special mix in 5.1 surround. 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They wanted to release a single, so approached lead actors Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley and suggested releasing it as a charity single. Madonna subsequently used the Pet Shop Boys remix, including Tennant's vocals, on her 2006 Confessions Tour. The album was also released with a limited edition remix album called Fundamentalism, which included a version of "In Private" as a duet with Elton John and "Fugitive", a new track produced by Richard X. That friendship also inspired the lyrics to the first song they wrote together, for which Chris Lowe composed the melody on a piano in the dining room of his parents’ house in Blackpool. When they first began touring, in 1989, they were heavily influenced by opera and theatre staging. [16] While there he arranged to meet Hi-NRG producer Bobby Orlando and gave him a demo tape containing "It's a Sin" and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)". In the Purcell, this theme introduces a scene in which love is said to be able to melt the coldest of hearts, which is what happens in this song. Pet Shop Boys began a worldwide tour in support of Fundamental in June 2006 in Norway. Hiring manager Tom Watkins, they signed with the London-based Parlophone label. It was a big party where everyone was having a great time and smiling at the camera. "Dreamland" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys featuring English synth-pop band Years & Years. Also in August 1987, Pet Shop Boys appeared on Love Me Tender, a UK television programme, on ITV, commemorating the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. 1987 started with Pet Shop Boys receiving both a BRIT Award and Ivor Novello Award for "West End Girls". The video to the single, directed by Jack Bond, starred Ian McKellen as a vampire who steals Neil Tennant's wife. A lyric video for the second single, "Burning The Heather", was released simultaneously. The promo video featured Matt Lucas and David Walliams, better known as the team behind Little Britain. We just didn't want to do that. [86] The fourth and final batch of reissues – 'Behaviour', 'Very' and 'Bilingual' – was released on 31 August 2018.[87][88]. Other hit songs include a cover of "Go West", and their own "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" Elysium was released in the UK on 10 September 2012 and in other countries the weeks before and after. The album is the third collaboration with producer Stuart Price, featuring 10 tracks, and a limited edition bonus disc of instrumental versions of all the tracks. !....Track listing1. [79] The announcement was accompanied by the release of an album teaser track, "Inner Sanctum". The first release on Olde English Vinyl was Atomizer's "Hooked on Radiation", followed by Pete Burns' "Jack and Jill Party" in 2004. [20] They say their band name was taken from friends who worked in a pet shop in Ealing, and were known as the "pet shop boys". This led to their collection album PopArt charting at number 18 on the UK albums chart, higher than when it was originally released. The design maintained many aspects used on the previous site made by London-based design company Airside. The album was the biggest-selling record among the UK's independent record shops during the week of its release, and went straight to the number 1 position on the Official Record Store Chart. The album was produced by Trevor Horn, who Pet Shop Boys had previously worked with on "Left to My Own Devices", in 1988. The duo have always been interested in the artwork, design and photography of their own releases. [81] The album debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart, selling 16,953 copies in its first week, becoming their 13th consecutive top 10 studio album. In 2006, both Tennant and Lowe were seen on stage and in photographs wearing clothes designed by Hedi Slimane/Dior Homme. “King’s Cross is the station you come to when you come down to London looking for opportunity from the north east, then the most depressed part of England,” he added in the liner notes to the 2001 reissue of Actually. The single, called "Paninaro '95", is based on the live version from the Discovery tour. ", and "Winner". On 3 October 2006, the long-delayed U.S. release of their PopArt hits package was issued by Capitol Records. Later, in 1991, Lowe also contributed to the Electronic project, contributing the chord sequence to "The Patience of a Saint" on their 1991 album. The paninari were a subculture of Milanese youths, obsessed with fast food and fast fashion: Tennant and Lowe liked the sound of them because they too were fans of Wham!, Madonna and Duran Duran, and were despised by trendier townsfolk of the same age. With Geena Davis, Chris Lowe, Ron Moody, Pet Shop Boys. Subsequent dates took them to Germany, the U.S., Canada, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, then another series of dates in the UK again, Switzerland and onto Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and then a first-ever date in Thailand as the final show, at the large Bangkok Impact Arena, in front of 9,000 fans. In 1991, they brought in David Alden and David Fielding, from the English National Opera, to create the staging and costume design, for a show which made little attempt to involve or even acknowledge the audience and pushed the choreography and staging centre-stage. The tour was scheduled to start in September and end in early October but was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Pet Shop Boys Annually 2021 will be published on May 7th and is available to pre-order now at the link below.. It features the remastered album, plus bonus tracks, demos and Pet Shop Boys' remixes of their tracks.[39]. In August, Pet Shop Boys released a follow-up single, "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)", a Latin American music-inspired track, featuring a drum sample from a track called "Estrada da paixão" by Brazilian act Olodum. Music video by Pet Shop Boys performing Heart (2003 Digital Remaster). Pet Shop Boys wrote and produced the song "I'm Not Scared" for Patsy Kensit's band, Eighth Wonder. It was produced by Pet Shop Boys and mixed with additional production by Stephen Hague, who had produced their first album and had subsequently produced records by OMD, New Order and Erasure. Lowe stated in a 1986 Entertainment Tonight interview: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, I don't like country and western. In April, Pet Shop Boys released a new single, "Before", leading up to their forthcoming album; the single reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. Footage from the film was also used for the music video to "Always on My Mind", now released as a single on 30 November; it became both the duo's third number one single in the UK and the Christmas number one single for 1987, beating "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 100 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. In 2020, BBC journalist Nick Levine noted that they still maintain a somewhat "detached and ambivalent approach" to their success, which also shows in their low profile on social media. On 7 December 2006, Pet Shop Boys were nominated for two 2007 Grammy Awards. Also in 2005, Pet Shop Boys were asked to put together the twentieth release in the Back to Mine series, an ongoing anthology showcasing artists' favourite music selections, with an emphasis on afterhours chill-out music. In 2005, Pet Shop Boys was selected as the headline act for the Moscow Live 8 concert, in Red Square. "[98], Their band dynamic has played a role in their public image as well. Long may it sparkle, and long may it turn. A sample of "It's a Sin", the lead single from Pet Shop Boys' 1987 album, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (, Chuck Eddy, criticism with interviewing Pet Shop Boys regarding "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously? Rent. Official Pet Shop Boys tour announcements. became the duo's very first single to miss the UK Top 20 since their two Bobby O debut singles. In July 2017, Pet Shop Boys reissued Release, as part of their 'Catalogue: 1985–2012' series. [15] Tennant had purchased a Korg MS-10 synthesizer which sparked a conversation with Lowe. Titled Somewhere and being promoted by a cover version of the song "Somewhere" from the musical West Side Story, the shows used projections filmed by the artist Sam Taylor-Wood. They worked again with Dusty Springfield, on the singles "Nothing Has Been Proved" (which was a song written for their soundtrack for the film Scandal about the Profumo political scandal in Britain) and "In Private". 2. On 4 September 2018, Pet Shop Boys announced on their official Facebook page, that writing the next studio album would continue through the rest of 2018. "Numb" became only the second Pet Shop Boys single in their career to miss the Top 20. The lead single from the new album, entitled "The Pop Kids", was released on 18 March 2016. Being Boring is a song both Tennant and Lowe have always loved, but another surprising rock star professed his admiration for it in 1991. King recorded a version of "Wild World" in the style of the Pet Shop Boys to prove his point. Also in 1994, Pet Shop Boys released the 1994 Comic Relief single, "Absolutely Fabulous". [25] It was a minor dance hit in Belgium and France,[26] but was only available in the United Kingdom as a 12" import. Also on 16 October, the third single from Fundamental, "Numb", was released, following its appearance at the end of the BBC's coverage of England at the World Cup. The Pet Shop Boys version was released in 1993, not long after the breakup of It subsequently replicated this success in the United States, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Israel, New Zealand and Norway and sold an estimated 1.5 million copies worldwide. It was the first track to be recorded for the duo's second album. This extended version, consistently called "Always on My Mind"/"In My House", would later be included on Pet Shop Boys' 1988 album, Introspective, with the 12" medley attached to the vinyl edition of their Actually album and only marketed in the United States in such double release. Meanwhile, the band switched managers again as Carrington resigned and was succeeded by Mitch Clark, who had previously worked for EMI International as Head of Promotion.[38]. But what I do like, I love passionately. Springfield's manager finally contacted them in 1986, following the release of Please, and towards the end of that year, she travelled to London to record "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" "Pet Shop Boys come back with a lot of 'love, etc. The single caused some controversy: Tennant's school, St. Cuthbert's Grammar School, in Newcastle upon Tyne, chastised him in the press, while pop impresario Jonathan King accused them of plagiarising the Cat Stevens song "Wild World". The slow, note-by-note descent of the melody in its verses seems to ache with real sadness. It is available on vinyl, CD, and digitally. That same month, Tina Turner also released her Wildest Dreams album, which featured the Pet Shop Boys-produced track "Confidential". Co. Ltd. Even the band's fan base has been subject to commentary. One of Tennant’s best friends from childhood, Chris Dowell, died of an Aids-related illness in 1989; he was a friend with whom Tennant shared the “invitations to teenage parties” that are mentioned in the first verse. [94] In their early years, the two Pet Shop Boys seemed to be mostly defined by the things they refused to do. The film was eventually released in 1988 to mixed reviews. Even he breaks in the middle eight, however, in a piece of speech taken from a 1986 US Entertainment Tonight interview. [84] On 31 August 2017, Pet Shop Boys announced that the reissues for 'Yes' and 'Elysium' would be released on 20 October 2017. A lyric video was released for the track "On Social Media", the second track to be revealed following the lead track "Give Stupidity A Chance". cummings' use of exclusively lower case letters. In July 2017, Pet Shop Boys reissued Nightlife, as part of their 'Catalogue: 1985–2012' series. The two internationally released singles from Yes, "Love etc" and "Did You See Me Coming? Minogue later performed the track live, during her 2005 Showgirl tour, singing to a pre-recorded Neil Tennant. Others assert, just as incorrectly, that the Pet Shop Boys have recorded a cover of Real Life's song. (It’s referenced as far back as West End Girls’ line about Lenin’s journey “from Lake Geneva to the Finland Station”, and To the Finland Station was the title of Edmund Wilson’s history of revolutionary thought.) During the latter part of 2006 and early 2007, Neil Tennant served as executive producer on Rufus Wainwright's new album, Release the Stars, recorded in Berlin. [95], The quote was subsequently sampled in the song "Paninaro", and further established the band's early reputation of being anti-rock'n'roll and aligned with disco and dance music culture. [80] "The Pop Kids" was the duo's eleventh number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart. All these videos were directed by Howard Greenhalgh, who continued to work with Pet Shop Boys well into the next decade. Typically, Pet Shop Boys have favoured avant-garde tailored fashions. In 1992, Pet Shop Boys were the subjects of a South Bank Show documentary on ITV. The only Lucky Kunst release to date is the mentioned Kiki Kokova's version of "Love to Love You Baby". A third track, "What Are We Going To Do About The Rich?" In a 2016 interview, Chris Lowe said the duo's live performances was a response to the music scene in the 1980s: "Everyone was so active. On 10 October 2006, Pet Shop Boys embarked on the North and Central American leg of their world tour, which took them through Canada, the United States and Mexico, concluding on 16 November. – Pet Shop Boys", "Pet Shop Boys – News archive (September 2008)", "Greatest of All Time: Madonna Is Billboard's No. Three decades on, it remains a total banger, Lowe’s blank delivery reining in the fabulousness just so. Pet Shop Boys began 2006 remixing Madonna's single "Sorry", for release in February. by Brothers in Rhythm. In design they have primarily worked with Mark Farrow, who designed the cover of their first Parlophone album release in 1986. Released in October 1985 it rose slowly in the British charts to become number one in January 1986. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2009 CD release of "Story (25 Years Of Hits)" on Discogs. This was Pet Shop Boys’ music as it would be, from the first day, to a T. Before Dusty Springfield and Liza Minnelli received fabulous songs from Pet Shop Boys, Tennant and Lowe were trying to write for a band called the Hudsons, one of whose members, Tom Watkins, was the Pet Shop Boys’ manager at the time. [77], Pet Shop Boys performed on stage with South Korean girl group f(x) at the end of the year MAMA Awards on 2 December 2015. [62], On 28 June 2012, Pet Shop Boys announced release date and the complete track listing for Elysium, produced in Los Angeles during 2012 by Andrew Dawson and Pet Shop Boys, released in September on Parlophone/EMI. The "It's a Sin" video marked the experimental director's first of several collaborations with the band. This extended mix makes this Top 10 for two reasons: for the jealousy-conjuring quote from Shakespeare’s Othello at the start (“Not poppy, nor mandragora / Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world / Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep / Which thou owedst yesterday), and for the track’s measured drift between harp-slathered bombast and naive, tender melancholy. In July 2016, they performed the 'Inner Sanctum' tour, for four nights at the Royal Opera House in London. In 1992, Tennant sang lead vocals on the non-album single "Disappointed", which was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Cool World. After the mixed fortunes of Closer to Heaven, Pet Shop Boys returned to the studio to start work on their eighth album. They were received extremely well by the crowd in Moscow. Around the time of the London closure, Tennant said that they were in talks to take the musical to various locations in Europe (particularly Germany, which is a big market for Pet Shop Boys) and to take it to New York. Trks C4 to D5: Pet Shop Boys Partnership under exclusive license to EMI Records Ltd. A1 ℗ 1985, A2 to A4 ℗ 1986, B1 to B5 ℗ 1987, C1 & C2, ℗ 1988, C3 ℗ 1989, C4 & D1 ℗ 1990, D2 to D5 ℗ 1991 On 29 January 2019, Pet Shop Boys announced a live album/DVD/Blu-ray release called Inner Sanctum. "In the Night" (Arthur Baker's Extended mix) 2. 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.e. On 15 November 2010, tickets went on sale for the Pet Shop Boys' second foray into British theatre, this time for a ballet. The majority of 1998 was spent with a series of live dates and minor releases, including a charity album of Noël Coward songs, called Twentieth Century Blues. The song became her biggest hit single and the Pet Shop Boys included their own extended version of the track on their Introspective album. “I don’t like much really, do I? [91] On the same day, they also announced the Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live tour, set to begin on 28 May 2020. I don't like much, really, do I? Presentation has always been a major theme for Pet Shop Boys and the duo have dramatically "re-invented" their image twice in their career. In 2003, Pet Shop Boys launched two new labels, Olde English Vinyl and Lucky Kunst, their Spaghetti Records label becoming defunct. Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. This version was also used as the theme for the UK television series The Clothes Show.[28]. The duo have been seen[by whom?] In January 2012, Pet Shop Boys announced on their official website that they had started recording their new album in Los Angeles with producer Andrew Dawson. On 23 October 2006, Concrete was released. The first single, "Home and Dry", featured a very peculiar video, directed by Wolfgang Tillmans, mostly consisting of raw camcorder footage of mice filmed in the London Underground. Nothing further was issued by the Pet Shop Boys or Really Useful Group regarding these performances; in 2005, a series of performances were staged in the Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia, though they were arranged independently of Pet Shop Boys and the Really Useful Group. This 2004 single, one of two extra tracks on the compilation PopArt, showed Pet Shop Boys, even 20 years into their career, could still move up a gear. The moment just before the end where the song’s relentless rhythm just stops – as if the song’s heart itself is even open to the possibility of missing a beat – is pop at its most playful and exquisite and perfect. September 1987 saw the release of the duo's second studio album, Actually, followed by the single "Rent" in October, which reached number 8 in the UK. [51] The story has been adapted by Matthew Dunster and features choreography by Javier de Frutos. At the 2009 Brit Awards in London, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. "Tainted Love" At least one .mp3 distribution site has wrongly attributed Soft Cell's immortal 1981-82 rendition of this song to the Pet Shop Boys… Pet Shop Boys kept the song for themselves and it ended up going to number one in the UK. Many of the duo's songs are written using gender-neutral language, so that they could refer to either gender.[105][106][107]. DISCO The Pet Shop Boys Remix Album 5, 6: Remixed for Mastermix Productions All songs published by Cage Music Ltd/10 Music Ltd, except 5 Published b Cage Music Ltd/10 Music Ltd/Charisma Music Publ. To coincide with the publication of Catalogue, a small exhibition of portraits of Pet Shop Boys opened in the Bookshop Gallery of London's National Portrait Gallery, on 30 October 2006 and ran to 28 February 2007. On 29 June 2019, Pet Shop Boys appeared on stage with The Killers at Glastonbury Festival as part of their encore and sang "Always on My Mind" and The Killers song "Human". 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 1986. The melody then rises in passages in the chorus, offering tangible moments of hope, before Tennant quashes them: “Wake up in the morning,” he sighs, “and there’s still no guarantee.”. Neil Tennant worked with Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr on their first album as Electronic, whose first single, "Getting Away with It", co-written and co-produced by Tennant, was released on 4 December 1989. Most posters, Maus summarised, feared that the band's appeal would become essentially limited to a cult following; "dissent, along the lines that the fans would always have the Pet Shop Boys, no matter what happened commercially, was scarce and ineffectual". Case in point: the muffled vocals at the beginning are from a Nasa countdown, for no other reason than drama. Before taking a break in 1992, in 1991 the Pet Shop Boys released an 18-track compilation called Discography, which included all of their single releases up until then, two new singles—"DJ Culture" and "Was It Worth It? On 9 June 2012, a film by renowned Los Angeles artist/film-maker Brian Bress for the album track "Invisible" began to be circulated on the web and was posted to the official site and the band's YouTube page on 11 June, at which time Elysium was revealed to be name of the new album. "Hotspot", the fourteenth studio album, was released on … There are other moments of Pet Shop Boys’ playfulness here. On 20 December the EP entered the UK chart at No. The music video was directed by filmmaker Bruce Weber. Working with director Jack Bond, the short film grew into a full-scale movie, It Couldn't Happen Here, starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland and Gareth Hunt. In the liner notes to their 1991 greatest hits album, Discography, the band states that: "When we wrote this song ("Heart") we wanted to submit it to Madonna but didn't dare risk disappointment." A collaboration with Years & Years, it was the first single from their then yet-to-be-titled forthcoming album. 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