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Pet Shop Boys
We take a look at the best debut albums of the 80s… Debut albums are often the purest example of any artist’s work. It can be the result of years…
The Best Pet Shop Boys Cover Art
For this feature on the best Pet Shop Boys cover art, we’ve selected key examples of design excellence from the duo’s remarkable oeuvre… By Andrew Dineley With backgrounds respectively in…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
With Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe created a melancholy classic informed by death and infidelity… By Oliver Hurley Neil Tennant remembers the moment clearly: it was…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Very
Vibrant, Computeresque and chockablock with potential singles, 1993’s Pet Shop Boys: Very was built upon purest hyperpop and buoyed by a technicolour promo campaign, with Pet Shop Boys sharing responsibility…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Yes
Released in March 2009 Pet Shop Boys’ Yes found the duo teaming up with Brian Higgins and Xenomania, the UK’s top pop producers of the 2000s… By Ian Ravendale Pet…
Classic Album: Pet Shop Boys – Actually
We look back at how the Pet Shop Boys’ second album was informed by Thatcherism, a 60s singer living in a hotel, Catholicism… and ZZ Top. By Oliver Hurley All…
Top 20 80s Collaborations
The pull of star power can be undeniable so it’s no surprise that some dream team hook-ups have made a major splash in the charts over the years. By Jon…
New Releases: 17 April
There’s never been a better time to curl up with a good book, so check out some of our top page-turning recommendations… Sheila Rocks – Young Punks 7/10 One of…
Pet Shop Boys: Closer To Heaven and MUSIK
Twenty years after their first venture into musical theatre with Closer To Heaven, Pet Shop Boys reunite with playwright Jonathan Harvey and actress Frances Barber for MUSIK at the Edinburgh…
Issue 55 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now!
In the latest issue of Classic Pop magazine we have a world exclusive with Adam Ant as he prepares for a full-album tour of his experimental solo debut Friend Or…