Condition: Used
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Label: EMI Music (Canada)
Catalog#: S-75131
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Rocerd is VG++
Cover is VG++
Country: Canada Issue
Released: 28 Oct 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: 80s Synth-pop
Tracklisting:
A1 West End Girls (Dance Mix) (6:31)
Additional Vocals - Helena Springs
Producer - Stephen Hague
Remix - Frank Roszak
B1 A Man Could Get Arrested (7" Mix) (4:50)
Backing Vocals - Margot Buchanan
Producer - Steven Spiro
B2 West End Girls (Dub Version) (9:31)
Additional Vocals - Helena Springs
Producer - Stephen Hague
Remix - Shep Pettibone
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Official HD Promo Video for Pet Shop Boys' fantastic single 'West End Girls'.
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Live 1986)
The Pet Shop Boys wit and irony, along with Neal Tennant's excellent voice combined to make some of the best pop songs of the 80's. Included are lot of well known hits like West End Girls.
"West End Girls" is a song by British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. It is a synthpop song, influenced by hip hop music. The lyrics focus on class, and inner-city pressure, and were inspired by T.S. Elliot's poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.
The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague, for their first studio album, Please. In late 1985, the song was re-released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986. In 1987, the song won for Best Single at The BRIT Awards, and Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2005, 20 years later after its release, the song was awarded Song of The Decade between the years 1985 and 1994, by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
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