Patsy Kensit | |
In 1988, the Pet Shop Boys contributed their song "I'm
Not Scared" to Patsy Kensit's band Eighth
Wonder. The song became a success and helped to bring attention to
her group and their debut album "Fearless". On the reverse side of
the single can be found another version of the song in which Patsy recites
all of the songs lyrics in French, hence the song title "J'ai Pas Peur".
The Pet Shop Boys later recorded their own version of the track and released
it on their "Introspective" album.
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Liza Minnelli | |
Liza Minnelli's 1989 album "Results" was produced by the Pet Shop Boys
and includes both Neil & Chris on keyboards as well as Neil on backing
vocals. The album produced a number of hit singles for Liza including
"Losing My Mind",
"Don't Drop Bombs",
"Love Pains"
and "So Sorry, I Said".
Seven of the ten album tracks were written by the Pet Shop Boys, including
their classic tracks "Rent"
& "Tonight Is Forever"
which were completely reinterpreted by Liza. Further songs include
"I Want You Now",
"If There Was Love"
and "I Can't Say Goodnight".
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Cicero | |
Discovered in 1989 by the Pet Shop Boys' manager Pete Andreas, Cicero was
finally signed to the Spaghetti Records label in 1991. The Pet Shop
Boys produced 4 songs ("Heaven Must Have
Sent You Back To Me", "Love
Is Everywhere", "My
Middle Class Life" and "That
Loving Feeling") for Cicero's debut album
"Future Boy", though only "Love Is Everywhere" gained any mainstream popularity
for Cicero. He went on to record "Live
For Today" with Sylvia Mason-James which
appeared on the soundtrack to the motion picture "The Crying Game".
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Electronic | |
Electronic (the talented duo of Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr) requested
the assistance of the Pet Shop Boys on their self titled debut album released
in 1990. Neil provided vocals on two of the album tracks, "Getting
Away With It" and "The
Patience Of A Saint". The following
year Electronic released a new single from the Cool World motion picture
soundtrack called "Disappointed"
which featured Neil Tennant's full vocals. To this day, Electronic
say that they still "technically consider the Pet Shop Boys as part of
Electronic".
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Dusty Springfield | |
Dusty Springfield had the Pet Shop Boys produce half of her album "Reputation"
in 1990. Five tracks made up the second side of the album, including
"In Private",
"Nothing Has Been Proved",
"Daydreaming",
"I Want To Stay Here",
and "Occupy Your Mind".
Her trust of the boy's remarkable work stems from her first collaboration
with them back in 1987 when they recorded the international hit "What
Have I Done To Deserve This?".
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Boy George | |
In 1991, The Pet Shop Boys teamed up with Culture Club's front man Boy George
to produce the unforgettable track "The
Crying Game" which featured in the motion
picture of the same name. Boy George has said that he was very impressed
with Neil & Chris and thoroughly enjoyed working with them.
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Carroll Thompson | |
In 1993, the Pet Shop Boys produced several tracks for the motion picture
soundtrack to "The Crying Game". Carroll Thompson was among those
artists who were fortunate enough to receive such royal treatment.
Here she can be found singing her remake to the classic dance track "Let
The Music Play" which was made popular
by the artist Shannon in 1984. Carroll's version was subsequently
remixed and released on a US CD5 along with Boy George and Cicero.
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Kylie Minogue | |
In 1993, the Pet Shop Boys gave a song known as "Falling"
to Kylie Minogue to record. Kylie accepted the track, but her final
version (produced by Farley & Heller) sounded nothing at all like the
Pet Shop Boys' original version. She stated at the time that she
wanted it to sound "less like the Pet Shop Boys". In 1999, they
have recorded a new duet together entitled "In
Denial" which appeared on
the Pet Shop Boys' album Nightlife and also in their musical Closer To Heaven.
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Ian Wright | |
In 1993, Chris Lowe teamed up with popular footballer Ian Wright to produce
Ian's first ever pop recording entitled "Do
The Right Thing". Sylvia Mason-James
provided the excellent backing vocals. It became a mild club hit,
but never received the mainstream popularity that Ian had hoped for.
They attempted another single the following year, but never quite finished
it.
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Jennifer Saunders & JoAnna Lumley | |
The Pet Shop Boys worked together with the stars of the hit UK television series
"Absolutely Fabulous"
(Jennifer Saunders & JoAnna Lumley) in 1994. The track is a hi-nrg
Eurodisco romp which includes loads of vocal samples taken from the television
series as well as Neil singing the chorus. The track became a charity
record with all proceeds benefiting the Comic Relief fund.
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Blur | |
The Pet Shop Boys remixed "Girls & Boys"
from the British indie group Blur in 1994. This was their first ever
remix of another artist's record. Since then, they have performed
this song live in concert during their "Discovery" tour.
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David Bowie | |
In 1996, David Bowie casually mentioned to Neil Tennant that they should remix
a track from his album "Outside" called "Hallo
Spaceboy". And so they did, drastically
reconstructing it into a major dance hit. It was Neil's idea to incorporate
lyrics from another Bowie classic "Space Oddity" into the song.
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Tina Turner | |
The track "Confidential"
was penned by the Pet Shop Boys and appears on Tina Turners album "Wildest
Dreams", released in 1996. The Pet Shop Boys have also released their
own demo recording of this song as a b-side to their single "Single-Bilingual".
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Suede | |
In a somewhat surprising move, Neil Tennant appeared on stage as a guest
vocalist during one of Suede's live shows at the Camden Roundhouse in 1997.
He sang the classic "Rent"
solo with Suede providing full acoustic instrumentation. He went
on to perform a duet with lead singer Brett Anderson on the Suede track
"Saturday Night".
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Elton John | |
Elton John asked The Pet Shop Boys to appear on his UK television special "An
Evening With Elton John" in 1997. They performed a duet with Elton
called "Believe/Song For Guy"
which combines two of Elton's earlier songs into one. Then, in 1998,
Neil provided the intro & outro vocals to Elton John's "Twentieth
Century Blues" contribution to the Red Hot Aids album of the
same name. In 2006 PSB recorded track "In Private"
which they wrote recently for Dusty Springfield's album "Reputation". At this time
as duet with Elton John. Club mix of the track was released on "Fundamentalism". 7" mix
came up later on "Minimal" single CD.
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Robbie Williams | |
Robbie Williams suggested to Neil Tennant that he provide backing vocals for a
song called "No Regrets"
which appears on Robbie's "I've Been Expecting You" and "The Ego Has Landed"
albums. Neil was all too happy to oblige, exclaiming "It's a really
fantastic melody.". The song was released as a single in 1998.
The same year, Neil also produced Robbie's contribution to the "Twentieth
Century Blues" CD titled "There Are Bad
Times Just Around The Corner". In 2006 Pet Shop Boys performed an exclusive
concert with BBC Radio orchestra at the Mermaid Theatre. Robbie was invited as special quest
to sing extended version of "Jealousy" song. In the same year
Robbie released new album include song "She's Madonna",
which he wrote and produced together with PSB. Cover version of "We Are The Pet Shop Boys"
is another song on the album.
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Sam Taylor-Wood | |
In 1998, artist Sam Taylor-Wood (who supplied the backdrop videos to the
"Somewhere" concert performances) asked the Pet Shop Boys to produce her
contribution to a compilation CD of popular British artists which became
known as the "Ambassadors - We Love You" futique. They agreed, and
the resulting track was "Je T'aime ...
Moi Non Plus", a remake of the 1969 French hit by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg.
Early 2003 they remixed the "eighties" song "Love to love you, baby".
It was given a limited edition release on 12-inch vinyl under the name Kiki Kokova.
In 2008 boys and Sam collaborated again. This time they produced track "I'm In Love With A German Film Star",
her cover version of the post-punk classic by The Passions. Single was released on October 20 on CD, 7" and 12" vinyl to coincide with
Wood's new exhibition at the White Cube gallery in London opened on October 22nd.
Pet Shop Boys also did a full length Symphonic mix. There are other remixes by Gui Boratto, Juergen Paape and Mark Reeder.
A video was shot by director Baillie Walsh.
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Melissa Etheridge | |
On Saturday, April 29th, 2000 Pet Shop Boys performed a 5 song mini-set at
the Equality Rocks concert in support of the Human Rights Campaign and
the Millenium March in Washington DC. Melissa Etheridge joined Neil
onstage to sing the part of Dusty Springfield during "What
Have I Done To Deserve This?" to the audience's
delight.
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Cerys Matthews | |
In June 2000, at Glastonbury festival during "
What
Have I Done To Deserve This?"Cerys Matthews from
Catatonia joyned Pet Shop Boys on stage.
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Fat Les | |
In 2000 Fat Les did new version of classical song Jerusalem. This song
became official hymn for European football championship 2000.
On single was released most famous mix "Jerusalem (Pet Shop Boys mix)"
mixed by Chris Lowe.
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Bloodhound Gang | |
Another remix by Pet Shop Boys was Bloodhound Gang's song "Mope".
PSB got a letter by means of record company, which contained how big PSB fans BG are and request to
remix the song. At firt PSB refuse but after listening the song
they agree to remix it. The song contains samples of Relax by Frankie Goes To
Hollywood, Rock Me Amadeus by Falco and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica. In
fact PSB remixed the track in the same studio as "Relax" was recorded says Chris.
They produced three remixes 7"remix, Extended remix and Dub mix.
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Peter Rauhofer | |
In 2001 Peter Rauhofer and Pet Shop Boys did cover to Raze song "Break for love".
Song was released in USA, in Europe few remixes was released on Home and dry singles.
Break 4 Love was remixed by Peter Rauhofer, Mike Monday, Ralphy, Michael Moog, Richard Morels, Sunshi Moriwakis... |
Motegi Miyuki | |
In 2002 PSB wrote song named "All or nothing"
for japan female actor Motegi Miyuki. Neil contributed with backing vocals.
Song was released on Motegi's LP M.I.U.(TOCT-24760).
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Yoko Ono | |
"Walking On Thin Ice" the new edition as a big remix project,
probably the best Yoko Ono production (originally produced by John Lennon) , was released on April in the UK.
Many other remixers such as Danny Tenaglia, Felix da Housecat, Peter Rauhofer, Rui Da Silva,
Orange Factory, Francois K and Eric Kupper have contributed their own work
besides the Pet Shop Boys whose did two remixes "Extended mix" and "Electro mix".
"Walking On Thin Ice" has reached No. 1 in the Billboard Club Charts in the USA.
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Atomizer | |
"Hooked on radiation" (PSB Orange Alert mix) was PSB's new production/remix
of the UK electro-clash band Atomizer who are behind the London club night
Nag Nag Nag.
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Alcazar | |
A new Tennant-Lowe song, "Love life", has been recorded by the Swedish pop group Alcazar for their new album, 'Alcazarized'.
Neil and Chris met Alcazar last year when the trio were performing at a London club.
A request for a song followed. Neil and Chris were fans of Alcazar's 'Crying at the Discotheque' and gave them this song which was
begun during the 'Release' sessions. The track has not been produced by Pet Shop Boys.
'Alcazarized' was released in Sweden on May 12.
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Madonna | |
At the beginning of the year 2006 Madonna released second single named "Sorry" from her album "Confessions On A Dance Floor".
Pet Shop Boys were asked to remix this song on December 2005. Their remix "Sorry (PSB maxi-mix)"
was released on maxi CD and 12" aswell. Neil Tennant recorded additional vocal specially for this remix.
Neil's vocal was able listen on Madonna's tour dedicated to album during this song. Later this year Neil awarded Madonna
at Brit Awards for Best Female Artist.
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Superchumbo | |
Tom Stephan s one of the hardest working dj’s in the industry flying all over the world to wow crowds with his music. Playing clubs the length and breadth of the world, he juggles his DJ commitments with his production and remix work while heading up his newly establishmed label ChumboMundo.
Furthermore he has worked his remix magic on both crossover and underground artists alike. Missy Elliot, Eric Morillo, Goldfrapp, Roger Sanchez, Kylie, Danny Tenaglia and Pet Shop Boys (New York City Boy, Sexy Northerner...) have all received the Superchumbo treatment at one point in time or another.
Despite the endless list of artists wanting a piece of the Superchumbo magic, original material is still Tom’s priority and 2005 saw the release of his debut artist album "Wowie Zowie". Having released a string of Superchumbo singles, the last 3 reaching number one in the US Billboard Dance charts,
Tom felt it was time for something new. "I wanted to expand on the Superchumbo sound and I felt that a full length album was the way to do that." Wowie Zowie is the result of 2 years of production and features guests including Celeda, Neil Tennant "Tranquilizer", and Samantha Fox.
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DJ Fresh | |
Fresh is the stage name of UK-based drum and bass artist Dan Stein. He is one of the principal members of Bad Company, and has also released many singles individually. He is widely known for his talents as both a DJ and producer, and considered among the most popular and influential British junglists. Fresh was one of the founders of the Bad Company record label, as well as more recent labels such as Dogs on Acid and Breakbeat Kaos (both of which he co-founded with Adam F). Recently voted No.1 Drum and Bass producer in the world by Knowledge magazine, Fresh was the leading member of drum and bass super band Bad Company UK whose track The Nine was voted no.1 drum and bass track of all time by Drum and Bass arena. Togeteher with Neil Tennant wrote song "Throw" for his own album "Escape from Planet Monday". |
The Killers | |
Pet Shop Boys extended mix of The Killers' new single, "Read My Mind",
was released on February 26th 2007. The song was remixed by Pet Shop Boys
towards the end of year before in two versions: an extended "Stars Are Blazing" mix and
a seven-inch edit. The mixes feature additional vocals by both Neil Tennant and (briefly) Chris Lowe. In the end of 2008, Neil Tennant has written and sung a few lines in the forthcoming Christmas single, "Joseph (Better You Than Me)", by The Killers featuring Elton John and Neil Tennant. The song began as a Killers/Elton John collaboration and then Brandon Flowers asked Neil to help out with some lyrics. Digital-only release was in December 2008 with proceeds going to the charity Red. Brandon Flowers appeared on Brit Awards 2009 show along with boys and Lady GaGa to perform songs "It's a Sin" and "West End Girls" in their medley arranged by Stuart Price. |
Madness | |
Pet Shop Boys' demo of classic song "My Girl" by Madness was released for a performance at Heaven
on May 3rd, 2008, during the "Can you bear it?" night.
Suggs and Carl from Madness came on stage for a chaotic performance
of the song.
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MGMT | |
PSB remixed track by US group MGMT called Kids. Result are two well sound mixes "psb synthpop mix" and "psb abstract mix". Those two mixes were presented only on PSB's official website.
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Girls Aloud | |
Girls Aloud are a British girl group created by ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.
The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Sarah Harding,
has become one of the most successful British pop groups of the decade, with a record-breaking 19
consecutive Top 10 singles and six albums.
They are Smash Hits poll winners, have won a TMF Award and have been nominated for two BRIT Awards. 2008 album Out of Control also features "The Loving Kind", a track written by the Pet Shop Boys. Kimberley explains how they teamed up: “They were in the studio recording stuff for their album with Brian and they wrote that song for us. “But it was a bit mad. When we heard it, we were like, ‘That sounds like the Pet Shop Boys’. And it was really difficult to sing as we just kept singing it like Neil Tennant had.” Nicola says: “And Neil told us to just sing it how we would sing it, instead of singing it how he had sung it.” Cheryl adds: “It’s a bit intimidating as well, you know, having Neil Tennant teaching you a harmony.” “I know,” laughs Sarah. “I said, ‘Could you leave the room so I can sing it because I feel really uncomfortable’.” |
Lady Gaga | |
Early 2009 PSB remixed track by artist Lady GaGa "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)".
Remix was released as free download. Lady GaGa appeared on Brit Awards show along with boys and Brandon Flowers to perform songs "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" and "West End Girls" in their medley arranged by Stuart Price.
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Dame Shirley Bassey | |
"The performance of my life", written by Pet Shop Boys is included on her album "The Performance". In an interview she comments: "I love all of the songs, but the Pet Shop Boys’ song The Performance Of My Life got right into my head, and made me sob and not many songs do that. Now I feel I don’t need to write a book. The record is my autobiography.”
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Claptone | |
The mysterious and world renowned masked DJ/Producer Claptone has now tapped legendary UK duo Pet Shop Boys to remix his single, “Queen Of Ice” ft. Dizzy, from his widely celebrated album ‘Closer’. Following up the Nora En Pure remix, Pet Shop Boys flip “Queen Of Ice” into a sensational remix, infused with captivating pop and house elements.
Pet Shop Boys are masters at captivating the listener instantly, as an icey ambiance builds into an infectious dance groove paired with Dizzy’s beautiful vocals. In true Pet Shop Boys style, this remix boasts dancefloor and radio appeal, taking the popularity of the original to dazzling new heights. “When my remix for ‘Love Is A Bourgeois Construct’ was released in December of 2013, I felt that it was the peak of Claptone. But three artist albums and countless hit songs later I can proudly say I was wrong. Still, I felt like I was on top of the world back then and I feel the same way today as Pet Shop Boys return the favor and remix 'Queen of Ice‘ ft. Dizzy. Almost 40 years ago they started creating club-influenced pop, opening up doors for underground club music on the radio and in the charts. Their work in the 80s, 90s and 2000’s is the reason why dance music is in the DNA of every top hit today. They are true pioneers still producing great music and expanding their very own world, what an inspiration.” - Claptone “Queen Of Ice” was released January 28th 2022 and was the seventh single from Claptone’s globally renowned third album 'Closer', co-produced by Stuart Price that was released in November 2021. Claptone - Queen Of Ice (Pet Shop Boys 7'' Mix) 3:17 Claptone - Queen Of Ice (Pet Shop Boys Extended Remix) 5:30 |