Looking forward to Hotspot next month, and wanted to provide an early Xmas present to help fill in the time gap!

I'm 100% confident these tracks won't see the light of day in any type of release, as 1997 was still pre-smart phone and unlikely a high quality soundboard mix exists anywhere.

Quality...

I finally, after all these years, got hold of a copy of Literally. It's a sometimes informative read but I strikes me there's a lot of alcohol mentioned. It's always in the sense of casual drinking, champagne, white wine... but also a pint or two.
There's some mentioning of Neil being drunk on a...

I love so mucha what he did on songs like this and he is very versatile:

Cicero has just published in his youtube channel his version of a Bobby´O song fully produced by Pet Shop Boys in 1992 (and with Sylvia Mason Janes). Amazing track.

One of the main reason Spain has been a big market for PSB (with UK, Germany and more than France and Italy) is because they have had a successful career in the most famous chart list from Spain. I'm not talking about The Spanish Official Singles Chart (where PSB have 3 Number 1: It's a Sin, Always...

I finally got a hold of 100 lyrics and a poem and found the introduction very interesting. It's the closest we got to a memoir.
Anyway, what really got to me was Neil's songwriting and near musical career in the 70's. So what if...

Dust got a record deal in 1972 and released an album before Neil...

I dawned on me that PSB were the very first to be rickrolled. All the way back at the end of summer 1987 when What have I done to deserve this? would become nr 1 on the UK singles chart but then came Never gonna give you up...

Then came the revenge in the epic battle for christmas nr 1 in 1987 where PSB beat Astley.

I...

Apologies if this has been posted before, but has anyone asked their Amazon Alexa 'who is your favourite band?'
:D

I read 100 lyrics & a poem and is struck by the comment to ICHH on page 87 my friend was beaten up by the homophobic occupants of the flat below him .
We're talking about an AIDS-struck man near his death beaten up by his own neighbours. Truly horrifying times we've lived through.
And at the same...

I don't know if this belongs to off-topic or here, so feel free to move it if necessary

Thoughts?

Pete G is selling off some classic PSB synths

Which one will you buy?

40 questions - some easier than others - covering Pet Shop Boys’ entire 40-year history. Each answer is one word. Get them all right and the 40 answers can be used to “unlock” four Pet Shop Boys song titles.

If you’d like to play, the winner is the first to post these four song titles together in...