De tweede single, Did you see me coming?, kwam uit op 1 juni 2009. As a condition, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were given one disc each, whereas all previous releases in the series consisted of only a single disc per group (see Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys). The album, Results, generated four singles, including the hit single "Losing My Mind", a cover version of the Stephen Sondheim song from the 1971 Broadway musical "Follies". In 1991 verscheen een opmerkelijke single: een combi-cover van twee verschillende nummers. Pet Shop Boys kicked off Summer 1997 with a sold-out three-week residency at the Savoy Theatre, in London, in June. Het nummer werd een wereldhit en klinkt vandaag de dag nog steeds in vele voetbalstadions. [23][24] In April 1984, the Orlando-produced "West End Girls" was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Het duo begon in 2015 aan een nieuw album, dat opnieuw door Stuart Price werd geproduceerd. Other artists on the label included Scottish singer Cicero, The Ignorants, and Masterboy. Het nummer Single verscheen onder de titel Single-Bilingual als single. In 1994 verscheen ook een single die niet op het album Very staat. After the mixed fortunes of Closer to Heaven, Pet Shop Boys returned to the studio to start work on their eighth album. The video to the single, directed by Jack Bond, starred Ian McKellen as a vampire who steals Neil Tennant's wife. Reviews were mixed and although the run was initially extended, it closed earlier than expected, due to poor ticket sales, in October 2001. [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. 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. Pet Shop Boys lyrics - 289 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)", "It's A Sin". [69], The twelfth album, entitled Electric, was released on 12 July 2013. Een BBC-documentaire over de carrière van Pet Shop Boys werd eveneens officieel uitgebracht (dvd A Life in Pop). De populariteit van de Pet Shop Boys beperkte zich inmiddels vooral tot het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Italië, Duitsland en Zuid-Amerika. At the 2009 Brit Awards in London, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. A collaboration with Years & Years, it was the first single from their then yet-to-be-titled forthcoming album. https://www.smoothradio.com/features/top-songs/pet-shop-boys-best-songs 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". Dezelfde soundtrack werd later ook enkele malen in Duitsland opgevoerd, net als in de havens van Newcastle. The tour followed the ideas of the extravaganza that could not have been afforded earlier in their careers. On 2 November, it was voted "Screamer of the Week" by listeners of Long Island, New York, radio station WLIR. On 3 January 2020 a third single was announced titled "Monkey Business". Deze pagina is voor het laatst bewerkt op 14 feb 2021 om 22:15. Nog in 2012 werd een nieuwe wereldtournee (Electric) aangekondigd, die in maart 2013 van start ging en uiteindelijk tot in de zomer van 2015 doorliep. The tour also visited the United States, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Let's face it, it's easier to stand stock-still isn't it?".[99]. De single ontlokte U2-zanger Bono de uitspraak: "What have we done to deserve this". It was written by Diane Warren and is the only song on the album not written by Tennant and Lowe. 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"[48], On 1 November 2010, Pet Shop Boys released Ultimate,[49] a single CD greatest hits album. 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. De Pet Shop Boys gingen eind 1994 op tournee in Azië, Australië, Midden- en Zuid-Amerika; vastgelegd op de video Discovery - Live in Rio. The BBC confirmed that 1.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the performance, a record for the event.[93]. In December 2012, Pet Shop Boys played a free concert in the recently opened dock10 studios accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Manchester Chamber Choir. Pet Shop Boys - Concrete (2006) Alternatieve titel: In Concert at the Mermaid Theatre for Radio 2 with the BBC Concert Orchestra. It was recorded on 14 November 2006, in the Auditorio Nacional, and was directed by David Barnard.[41]. The most notable remixes were by Gui Boratto, Juergen Paape and Mark Reeder, who also made a special mix in 5.1 surround. The set list also included a duet with Beverley Knight on the song "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" They wanted to release a single, so approached lead actors Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley and suggested releasing it as a charity single. became the duo's very first single to miss the UK Top 20 since their two Bobby O debut singles. In April, Pet Shop Boys released a new single that reached No. Het muzikaal gevarieerde album laat onder meer latin-invloeden horen, maar op een van de singles, A red letter day, zingt ook een Russisch mannenkoor mee. 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. Zo hebben zij zich onder andere laten bijstaan door producers als Bobby Orlando, Stephen Hague, Julian Mendelsohn, Trevor Horn en Harold Faltermeyer, die allen een belangrijke bijdragen geleverd hebben aan het geluid van de jaren 80. Sterren … Het gaat om een bewerking van een sprookje van Hans Christian Andersen. The album was not intended to reflect a dramatic change in mood from their earlier albums; however, it is noticeably subdued. 4 in the UK, their highest album chart position in more than a decade. This single version would be included on their first and third greatest hits albums, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection and Ultimate, whereas the album version would be used for their second retrospective, the double PopArt: Pet Shop Boys – The Hits. Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe Openklappen . 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. They also used social networking site Twitter for a short period before returning to only 'Pet Texts'. On 21 November 2011, the Beyond Theatre Award, was presented to Pet Shop Boys and the director of The Most Incredible Thing, Javier de Frutos. en The forgotten child. and "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" Pet Shop Boys continued their world tour, albeit with a slightly different production and set-list, on 14 March 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil then played concerts in Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and Australia (as co-headliners of the V Festival 2007), Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Singapore. Behalve een selectie van oude en nieuwe nummers ging die dag een eerste nummer uit een speciaal muziekstuk in première dat de Pet Shop Boys componeerden ter ere van computer-pionier en wetenschapper Alan Turing. It features the remastered album, plus bonus tracks, demos and Pet Shop Boys' remixes of their tracks.[39]. De samenwerking met Dusty Springfield kreeg in 1989 een vervolg, met de single Nothing has been proved, die fungeerde als titelsong voor de film Scandal. In het najaar verscheen het concert als dubbel-cd, onder de titel Concrete. Dat geldt ook voor de tweede single: een samenwerking met zangeres Dusty Springfield, die op dat moment in de vergetelheid was geraakt. Pet Shop Boys formed in London in August 1981, when vocalist Tennant (a former editor at Marvel Comics who later gained recognition as a journalist for Smash Hits magazine) first met keyboardist Lowe (a onetime architecture student) at an electronics shop. Springfield zegde toe en haar samenwerking met de Pet Shop Boys, die in 1989 nog een vervolg zou krijgen, zorgde voor een opleving in haar carrière. Pet Shop Boys performed "West End Girls" in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games on 12 August 2012. De soundtrack, met diverse nieuwe Pet Shop Boys-composities, gezongen door de cast, verscheen later op cd. Throughout 2000, they continued to work on their musical and in May they started workshopping the project and finalising the plot and songs to be used. [53][54], On 28 September 2011, Pet Shop Boys announced that they had written 16 songs for their next studio album and expected to start recording the new songs in November 2011 for release in Autumn 2012. Als producers en schrijvers werkten zij tot nu toe onder andere samen met: Als remixers werkten zij onder andere voor: De Pet Shop Boys roepen regelmatig de hulp in van vooraanstaande muziekproducenten. Dit leidde tot een ingetogen album, getiteld Behaviour. [98], Music journalist Steve Harnell describes them as having both an "ear for commerciality" and the desire to create "something more highbrow". In de bijbehorende videoclip is een hoofdrol weggelegd voor David Walliams en Matt Lucas, bekend van de tv-serie Little Britain. In augustus 1994 gaf Neil Tennant in een interview met het tijdschrift Attitude openheid over zijn seksuele geaardheid. When we signed to the label in 1985 we had no idea how long and successful a relationship we were embarking on. 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. [61], On 27 June 2012, Pet Shop Boys performed three songs before the Olympic tennis games in Henman Hill, Wimbledon: "Always On My Mind", "What Have I Done to Deserve This? [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". 4,17 (12) Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium (2010) Alternatieve titel: Live, the O2 Arena, London, 21 December 2009. In het najaar van 1991 verscheen de verzamel-cd Discography - The complete singles collection, waarop de eerste zestien singles van de groep zijn verzameld, samen met twee nieuwe tracks: DJ culture en Was it worth it?, die eveneens beide op single verschenen. with them. Airplay Top 40. Voor een goed doel nam het duo een single op met Jennifer Saunders en Joanna Lumley, actrices uit de comedyserie Absolutely Fabulous. The video to the single featured clips from the sitcom, along with newly recorded footage of Tennant and Lowe with the characters of Edina (Saunders) and Patsy (Lumley). In 1997 verscheen een cover van het musicalnummer Somewhere op single, gevolgd door een kleinschalige tournee langs het Savoy Theatre in Londen. Van het album verschenen nog drie andere singles: I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing, Liberation en Yesterday, when I was mad. The album's third single, "Memory of the Future" was released in December 2012 including the b-side "Listening" which Pet Shop Boys wrote for Morten Harket from a-ha, and a mixed version of the song (with backing vocals from Tennant) appeared on his solo album "Out of my hands" in April 2012. In March 1991, a cover of U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" as a medley with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", the 1960s pop song by Frankie Valli/The Four Seasons, was released as a double A-sided single with a remix of the album track "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" Wel is er een videoclip voor gemaakt. In 2006, both Tennant and Lowe were seen on stage and in photographs wearing clothes designed by Hedi Slimane/Dior Homme. Op 12 september 2004 voerden de Pet Shop Boys samen met de Dresdner Sinfoniker een zelfgeschreven soundtrack op voor de filmklassieker Battleship Potemkin (1925), begeleid door de oorspronkelijke filmbeelden. In het najaar van 2003 verscheen een nieuw verzamelalbum: PopArt - The Hits. Taken from the album, Actually. Het duo vernoemde zichzelf naar vrienden die boven een dierenwinkel woonden, bekend als de 'Pet Shop Boys'. 1991. 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. Following a live stint on the John Peel show on Radio 1, Pet Shop Boys released Disco 3, in February 2003. [94] In their early years, the two Pet Shop Boys seemed to be mostly defined by the things they refused to do. Neil nam ontslag bij Smash Hits, om zich volledig op hun carrière te kunnen storten. in a duet with Dusty Springfield. In 1994, Pet Shop Boys offered to remix fellow Parlophone act Blur's single "Girls & Boys"; it was a club hit throughout Europe and started a sporadic trend for Pet Shop Boys to remix other artists' music. A DVD of the show in Mexico City was released on 21 May 2007, titled Cubism. A German-language edition was also published. In het Olympic Stadium speelden ze voor de 80.000 aanwezigen het nummer West End Girls. In 1989 verscheen het album Results van Liza Minnelli, dat is geproduceerd door de Pet Shop Boys en Julian Mendelsohn. De derde single van Actually is Rent, gevolgd door een cover van Always on My Mind. On 14 November 2019 the band announced details of their fourteenth studio album, Hotspot, which was released on 24 January 2020 on x2 Records/Kobalt. 3,70 (5) Pet Shop Boys - Inner Sanctum (2019) Scores. March 1988 saw the duo achieve their fourth UK number one single (and their last to date), with a remixed edit of "Heart", different from the album version. … 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. Bewerking van een sprookje van Hans Christian Andersen off you ) Pet Boys! 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