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Pet Shop Boys Annually 2025 is published today! If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, you can do so now at the link below. An exclusive “Annually 2025” T‑shirt is also available.
Pet Shop Boys’ “Discography” is being reissued on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1991.
Pet Shop Boys can announce a new UK summer tour date. On Thursday, August 14th they will be performing in the grounds of the Sandringham Estate with very special guests, Scissor Sisters.
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Pet Shop Boys
On this day
1997
Neil attends an invitation-only live set by Depeche Mode at a South London TV studio. The DM performance, in which they debut tracks from their soon-to-be-released album Ultra, is videotaped for later broadcast on MTV.
2000
Chris begins work in a London studio (sans Neil, but assisted by Pete Gleadall) on the music for ‘Nine Out of Ten.’
2002
The Boys tape their appearance on Later… with Jools Holland, to be aired two days from now. They perform four songs.
2008
They work on several tracks, including their first attempt at the old Madness song ‘My Girl.’
2009
The CNN website runs a story about how the Pet Shop Boys had rejected a recent request by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that they change their name to the ‘Rescue Shelter Boys’ as a gesture toward educating the public about the downside of pet shops. CNN even makes it the subject of a poll on the home page of their website.
2010
Chris and Neil attend Boy George’s show this evening at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Afterwards George writes on Twitter, ‘Lovely to see the Pet Shop Boys tonite. Neil is looking über well and Chris is still a lovely rascal!’
- Facts collated by geowayne.com
I don’t wanna go out
I don’t wanna go dancing
Lonely boy
He has his head in the clouds
Sits at home
with no one around
Feels so shy
he’d rather sit alone and cry
that no one understands this guy
I don’t wanna go out
I don’t wanna go dancing
I don’t wanna go out
I don’t wanna go dancing
Friday night you’d hope
the phone might just ring
but when it does
he says he’s not in
What’s the deal?
A guy so shy
he doesn’t feel
that he has any sex appeal
I don’t wanna go out
I don’t wanna go dancing
I don’t wanna go out
I don’t wanna go dancing
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna
…
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Tickets for Pet Shop Boys’ “Dreamworld” show at the Royal Sandringham Estate on 14th August are now on sale at the link below.
I loved performing three songs at last night’s London Soundtrack Festival concert at the Roundhouse in London with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra arranged and conducted by Anne Dudley. In this photo Jake Shears and I are duetting on “Rent”. I also sang “Nothing has been proved” and “Everybody’s Talkin’” (from “Midnight Cowboy”). A great experience. Neil x
Photo: Julie Edwards
“Phantoms and Monsters”, composed by Mark Springer, with Neil Tennant on vocals and the Sacconi Quartet on strings is out now digitally at the link below.
This quintet piece is the opening track of Mark Springer’s forthcoming new album, “Sleep of Reason”, which will be released along with a solo piano piece and a quartet piece on 25th April 2025.
Neil discusses Pet Shop Boys’ relationship with Russia in an interview with the independent Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, now also published in The Guardian. Links below.