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PET SHOP
BOYS
SPECIAL EDITION
SYNTH
POP
ICONS
COLLECTOR’S
COV ER #1 OF 2
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS
•
CLASSIC ALBUMS
•
DESIGN
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TOP 40 TRACKS AND MUCH MORE...
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PET SHOP BOYS ARE MASTERS OF NAMING
THINGS. THEIR GUILEFUL, MINIMALIST ONE-
WORD ALBUM TITLES HAVE A CRAFTY WAY
OF GIVING US THE SUGGESTIVE LITTLE
POKE THAT INSISTS WE LISTEN TO THE
THING IMMEDIATELY AND TRY TO WORK
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IT ALL OUT. THEIR SONG TITLES PLAY THE
SAME TRICK, ALBEIT
erhaps therein lies the
OFTEN WITH MORE
enduringly magnetic
WORDS, JUST ASKING
draw of pop’s finest
sophisticates. For
TO BE UNLOCKED.
Tennant and Lowe, it’s all about
THOSE SEDUCTIVE
the whole. The outer shell is
SLEEVES DEMAND
as important as the kernel.
Everything must resonate with
DEEPER SCRUTINY TOO,
that singular musical vision, from
OFFERING A FLIRTATIOUS
the packaging that presents it
PEEK INTO SOMETHING
to the people with whom they
interpret their disparate ideas.
FAR BIGGER THAT LIES
It’s all intrinsic to the artifice, to
BEYOND. AND THEN
the ever-intriguing whole. And
there’s always an endless queue
THERE’S EVERYTHING
of us fascinated enough to grasp
ELSE – BY WHICH
the nearest nutcracker.
WE ALSO MEAN THE
It seems to come easy,
and maybe it does, but as
MUSIC – AND IT SEEMS
PSB confidante Anne Dudley
THAT PSB-WORLD IS
explained to us, there’s plenty
JUST ONE GIANT NUT
of hard work too. Chris and
Neil are the architects of their
THAT‘S EAGER TO BE
destiny, and unlike the swathes
CRACKED…
of bands that land with their
P
bums in the butter, they clearly
have a plan. Expertly self-
branded from the start and
with a manifesto that set out
all the things they didn’t want
to be, the Pets’ world takeover
began. They manufactured
themselves like no other act has
ever done, or is ever likely to
do. They had help, of course,
and inside this issue we dip into
the Boys’ kaleidoscopic – ever-
nonconformist – aesthetic and
its many co-creators, and meet
Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Stephen
Lipson and Julian Mendelsohn,
who discuss their work with
the duo… and importantly, the
freedom handed over to them.
In all, we attempt to get to
the heart of how an act from
the pre-internet age can boast
that, almost 40 years after their
formation, they still maintain the
pertinency so often attributed
to them. Sought-after producers
and remixers, they remain a hip
name to drop. Their secret? They
occupy both sides of the coin,
both ordinary and extraordinary.
Some hear Pet Shop Boys and
dissect every word; some simply
dance. Ultimately, they speak to
anyone who’s really listening.
We may not have their flair
for nomenclature, but given
one word to describe them?
Complete. Enjoy the issue!
Rik Flynn
Editor
T H E
C O N T R I B U T O R S
Mark Lindores
grew up during
the golden age
of pop mags
devouring
Smash Hits
and
Number One.
Writing about
the artists he used to read about
for
Classic Pop, Total Film
and
Mixmag,
he is living the dream
of his 15-year old self.
Ian Wade
is a freelance
writer, sub-editor
and PR who
achieved a
lifetime ambition
to write for
Smash Hits
back in
1998 and has since worked for
The Quietus, The Guardian, The
Sunday Times, BBC Music, Time
Out
and many more.
Andrew
Dineley
is the
author behind
Classic Pop’s
Pop Art
series. He has
interviewed dozens of
the creative legends behind
many of music’s most iconic
record covers. This issue, he
dissects PSB’s catalogue.
Ian Peel
is a freelance
journalist
and industry
consultant,
specialising in
international and catalogue
marketing. He devised
Classic
Pop
magazine in 2011 and
Long Live Vinyl
in 2016 and is
the Editor-at-Large of both titles.
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d e c a d e s
1980s
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They met in a shop, bonded over underground
dance music and emerged seemingly fully-
formed as an unlikely, but perfect, duo
1990s
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A new decade, a new Pet Shop Boys, gleaning
inspiration from the wider arts to produce
real albums of growing depth and imagination
2000s
38
The age of
Release, Fundamental
and
Yes,
from guitars to Trevor Horn to commercialism,
with side-trips to the stage and screen
2010s
52
Constant searching, constant re-invention;
Tennant and Lowe forge forwards with the
varied delights of
Elysium, Electric
and
Super
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classic album: actually
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By 1987, had PSB already met the teetering
edge of their shelf life? By no means.
Producer Julian Mendelsohn has the story
classic album: very
36
It’s the Nineties, and Pet Shop Boys trade
melancholia for a life-affirming set that drags
us unprotestingly towards the dancefloor
classic album: yes
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Teaming up with Xenomania in 2009, Neil and
Chris underline the pop with a dayglo marker
and nab themselves a Grammy nomination
classic album: electric
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More banging and lasers… pfff, why not?
Liberated from their old record deal, PSB roll
up their sleeves with fresh enthusiasm
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CONTENTS
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POP ART
66
The pop polymaths and their friends have
delved deeply into design and produced some
of the finest cover artwork of their era
GALLERY
74
Six full-page photographs plucked from Pet
Shop Boys’ multi-coloured history
INTERVIEW: NEIL TENNANT
80
The ever-eloquent Neil chats about classic
songs and extended mixes, naughty record
covers, his secret folk past, and plans for a
nice jazzy vocal/piano tour (well, maybe)
TOP 40
86
Scanning the whole of our heroes’ hit-
encrusted career to nail the perfect playlist,
we bravely put our money on a generous two
score of gems that are surely unmissable
INTERVIEW: JJ JECZALIK
96
Art Of Noise man and co-producer of the hit
version of
Opportunities
on the Trevor Horn
influence and using technology by numbers
LIVE
98
How could a half-static duo possibly take
on some of the biggest gigs in the world?
With brilliant staging, lighting and costume,
Tennant and Lowe showed us the way
INTERVIEW: TREVOR HORN
108
The producer discusses the recording of
Left
To My Own Devices,
his favourite Pet Shop
Boys records and the pair’s studio methods
VIDEOS
110
Moving swiftly onwards from urban decay,
PSB vids became repositories for fantasy,
darkness, humour and deep irony
INTERVIEW: STEPHEN LIPSON 116
Knob-twiddler for Paul McCartney, Annie
Lennox, Will Young – and Pet Shop Boys
COLLABORATIONS
118
Dusty Springfield, Liza Minnelli, Patsy
Kensit, Sumner and Marr, Kylie, Bowie, Tina
Turner… and there’s more to come
INTERVIEW: ANNE DUDLEY
126
The orchestral maestro contributed her
sweeping vision to PSB projects including
Results, Very, Relentless
and
Fundamental
LONG LIVE VINYL
128
Spinnable sonic artefacts for Pets collectors,
from big money down to a mere tenner
CLASSIC POP MOMENTS
130
Pet Shop Boys’ bonkers Olympics spot was
180 seconds of pedal-powered perfection
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