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Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (80s Video)

Always On My Mind

Neil Tennant from video It's A Sin

It's A Sin

Neil Tennant singing

One More Chance

 

 


Pet Shop Boys - Discography - MP3 Album


Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Here are Neil and Chris dressed as each other in a Top of the Pops performance on BBC1 of their first hit single, West End Girls. Its massive success propelled the Pet Shop Boys' 1986 debut LP Please into the Top Ten of the album charts in the UK.

PET SHOP BOYS

Pet Shop Boys are Neil Tennant (singer) and Chris Lowe (keyboards). Their biggest-selling singles and albums were all in the 80s, and they have sold over 50 million records across the World. Since 1986, they have had 39 Top Thirty singles and 22 Top Ten hits in the UK. This includes four number ones which were all in the eighties; "West End Girls", "It's a Sin", "Alway's On My Mind" and "Heart".

Their first album "Please" and third album "Actually" went triple-platinum in the UK. "Actually" has often been described as "the perfect pop album"  - I tend to agree. The highlight of this album was the massive No.1 hit "It's a Sin", a dramatic song about lead-singer Neil Tennant's troubled childhood.

So far in their outstanding career, Pet Shop Boys have released ten studio albums, four compilation albums, two live albums, four remix albums, one extended play and fifty-five singles!

For a brilliant, in-depth discography, click the photo below.

Pet Shop Boys and Lisa Minnelli -

Losing My Mind

 

 Pet Shop Boys - We are the Pet Shop Boys


Pet Shop Boys performing Heart on

Top Of The Pops

Heart reached No.1 in the UK and was taken from the 1987 album Actually. Other hit singles from the album were; What Have I Done to Deserve This Ft. Dusty Springfield (#2 UK), Rent (#8 UK) and It's a Sin (#1 UK).


      


The first Pet Shop Boys single "West End Girls" was originally released in 1984, but only reached No.121 in the UK charts. They didn't do any better with their second single "Opportunities" and it only reached No.116.

However, in 1985 a re-release of "West End Girls" reached No.1 in both the UK and USA charts. The first album "Please" was a big success and reached No.3 in the UK album charts - it went triple-Platinum.

Three more hit singles were released from the "Please" album; "Love Comes Quickly" (No.19), a re-release of "Opportunities" (No.11) and "Suburbia" (No.8). In these days singles sold in much higher quantities than they do now, so all of these would probably outsell even the No.1 single today!

 

Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing

Domino Dancing was influenced by Latin pop and was the lead single from the 1988 album, Introspective. It reached No.7 in the UK and No.18 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart and No.5 in the U.S. dance charts.

Left: The cover of the Domino Dancing single

Check out the 80's 12 Inch Disco Mix at my 80s Remix blog.

 

 

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