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Pet Shop Boys formed in London in August, 1981 when vocalist Neil Tennant (a former editor at Marvel Comics who later gained some notoriety as a journalist for Smash Hits magazine) first met keyboardist Chris Lowe (a onetime architecture student) at an electronics shop, discovering a shared passion for dance music and synthesizers, they immediately decided to start a band. Dubbing themselves the Pet Shop Boys in honor of friends who worked in such an establishment — while also obliquely nodding to the sort of names prevalent among the New York City hip-hop culture of the early 1980s — the duo s career first took flight in 1983, when Tennant met producer Bobby O Orlando while on a writing assigment. Orlando produced their first single, 1984 s West End Girls , the song was a minor hit in the U.S. but went nowhere in Britain, and its follow-up, One More Chance, was also unsuccessful.



1. Yesterday When I Was Mad
2. Truck Driver And His Mate
3. Se A Vida E
4. Hallo Spaceboy
5. To Step Aside
6. Go West
7. The Theatre
8. It's A Sin/I Will Survive
9. Discoteca
10. Can You Forgive Her
11. Somewhere
12. Rent
13. Being Boring
14. Left To My Own Devices