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Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (1987)

The original version of this song was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1972 and was also covered by "The King" Elvis Presley. In 1987, Pet Shop Boys performed their version of "Always on My Mind" on Love Me Tender, an ITV special commemorating the tenth anniversary of Presley's death. After their performance was so well-received, Neil and Chris decided to record the song and release it as a single. It became the Christmas number one in the UK, and remains Pet Shop Boys biggest-selling single to date.



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Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin (1987)

The powerful song about Neil Tennant's difficult Catholic upbringing and education. It spent three weeks at No.1 in the UK singles chart during June 1987.


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 performing Heart on

Top Of The Pops

 

      


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!




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Neil Tennant with the Pet Shop Boys performs in concert at the Fillmore in Miami Beach on September 9, 2009. UPI/Michael Bush Photo via Newscom

Neil Tennant doing his Holly Johnson impression! Actually, this is Neil performing at a 2009 concert in at the Fillmore in Miami Beach on September 9, 2009

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 29: Chris Lowe of The Pet Shop Boys performs on stage as part of the V Festival sideshows, which sees artists enroute to Australia's V festival play for New Zealand audiences first, at the St James Complex on March 29, 2007 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)

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