Eight things we learned from Pet Shop Boys

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Pet Shop Boys are the most successful British music duo of all time and four decades on from the release of number one debut single West End Girls, they are back with new album Nonetheless.to talk about their career, their collaborators and the beauty, beats and melancholy of their 15th album. Here are just some of the things we learned…1. New album Nonetheless was written during ‘the dreaded lockdown’.

“Our sometime stage designer Es Devlin would call that section of the show, ‘tears in the toilet’,” adds Neil. “Some young artists come into this and they want to be rich and famous, that wasn't our inspiration for doing this,” says Neil. “I'd worked in publishing, for Marvel Comics, two book companies and I worked for Smash Hits,” says Neil. “Chris was by that point a qualified architect.”

“When you stay in a hotel, quite often they get you to sign the guest book and we always flick through every page to see how complicated some people's autographs are. I mean, some people manage to put grand pianos in theirs and all sorts of things, faces and all the rest of it, and ours are very...”7. They often say no to films using their music, but loved how it featured in Saltburn and All of Us Strangers.

 

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