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80's UK Chart Sales and Info

Last post by Tentenlad « Thu 20 Mar 2025, 2:17 pm
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by Tentenlad » Thu 13 Mar 2025, 10:48 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

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80’s sales and chart info for Pet Shop Boys

1985
‘West End Girls’
The 68th best-selling single of 1985.
228,701 copies sold.
The top 13 selling singles sold over 500, 000 copies in 1985. By comparison, in 1987 (Pet Shop boys ‘imperial phase’?) only the top 7 singles managed those kinds of...

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New Order 1980’s singles ranked by UK sales

‘Blue Monday’ 575,960 (total between 1983 and 1987)
‘True Faith’ 213,231
‘Blue Monday’ (’88 remix) 196,129
‘Fine Time’ 109,990
‘Confusion’ 107,117
‘Temptation’ 102,097
‘Touched By The Hand Of God’ 74,392
‘Round & Round’ 71,281
‘Thieves Like Us’ 61,880...

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Thu 20 Mar 2025, 2:17 pm
Neil's best lyrics / your favourites...

Last post by Sandy Shaw « Thu 20 Mar 2025, 11:24 am
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by Sandy Shaw » Mon 17 Mar 2025, 2:23 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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I thought I'd start a positive thread!

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I think Neil's best outweigh his worst by some considerable margin.

There's just so much good stuff, some already listed here.

Have at it everyone, but I can't even begin.

It's tricky isn't it?

Typing or pasting them here also takes away context at times of course, as well as the whole musical...
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Thu 20 Mar 2025, 11:24 am
Pet Shop Boys remix Primal Scream

Last post by nekko « Wed 19 Mar 2025, 10:09 pm
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by Dog » Fri 07 Mar 2025, 4:23 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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Out now:

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And here's the edit :

I can't decide whether the new vocals (at 2:40) are Neil's voice or not...
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Wed 19 Mar 2025, 10:09 pm
Neil's Worst Lyrics

Last post by markus « Tue 18 Mar 2025, 8:31 pm
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by TallThinMan » Sat 19 Oct 2013, 10:21 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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In the true PSB spirit of celebrating negativity rather than positivity, what are Neil's worst lyics?

How about the tautological Planes taking off to fly from Hold On?

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From “Everybody will dance” (which I love):

Tonight I need another
secret to discover
A temporary pleasure
always and forever

Surely a temporary pleasure would not be for always and forever? Or am I just not interpreting this correctly?!!

He's always about finding it, forever searching.
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Last post by markus
Tue 18 Mar 2025, 8:31 pm
Tour vocal studio demos MONTAGE

Last post by Towa « Tue 18 Mar 2025, 7:50 pm
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by Constantin V. » Fri 14 Mar 2025, 10:16 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

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It's a great record. It is a pity that it will never be officially released.

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Some of those demos seem to have the vocals from the album versions. Maybe those aren't original demos?

Maybe it's that when the live arrangements were being produced, they use the original studio vocals to save having to record guide vocals - effectively making them remixes at that point in the...

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Tue 18 Mar 2025, 7:50 pm
Guardian article - Russia

Last post by jasonjohn « Tue 18 Mar 2025, 6:35 am
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by missemma » Wed 12 Mar 2025, 6:20 am » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’

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Nah, the people you want us to be calmer and more balanced about (eg: Tommy Robinson) are off the charts.

Nice try, but you're just using weasel words.
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Tue 18 Mar 2025, 6:35 am
Girls. Boys. Art. Pleasure.

Last post by stussyboy « Fri 14 Mar 2025, 9:40 pm
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by East End Bhoy » Wed 05 Mar 2025, 8:26 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

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Saw this tonight on my way from work, the flyers are popping up everywhere.

Anyone know what it's about?

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This mag has been kicking about for a while now. The first issue featured Chris on the cover, and goes for a few quid now.

It’s very much based on football casual terrace culture, mainly in the 80s, with the usually unmentioned undercurrent of hooliganism. The guy behind it’s obviously a PSB fan...

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Fri 14 Mar 2025, 9:40 pm
RIP Turbine Theatre home of Closer to Heaven revival

Last post by stussyboy « Fri 14 Mar 2025, 9:32 pm
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by Sandy Shaw » Thu 13 Mar 2025, 4:06 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion

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Sad news...

I ended up seeing the revival several times, and the production revealed itself as finely detailed and thought out, and the cast did great justice to the songs...

I wonder if some lucky buyers managed to obtain some souvenirs of the show...

''South London venue The Turbine Theatre,...

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What a pity.

The venue did seem slightly out of place amongst the ultra rich and absent residents who (don’t) inhabit Battersea Power Station

I really enjoyed the production of C2H, and I think this venue, much like the Union Theatre, really added to the production.

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Fri 14 Mar 2025, 9:32 pm
Sleep of Reason - Mark Springer/Neil Tennant/Sacconi String Quartet

Last post by dylanww73 « Fri 14 Mar 2025, 6:15 pm
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by Old Soak » Thu 06 Feb 2025, 9:09 pm » in Pet Shop Boys Discussion
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Mark Springer/Neil Tennant/Sacconi String Quartet
I fell into a deep sleep of reason Everything broken and hence when I woke up from that deep sleep of reason it all made sense”

A Unique Artistic Partnership. Release Date: Apr 25, 2025

Discs: 2

This project represents a distinct and carefully...
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