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Music mogul, design visionary, businessman, cultural commentator and art collector Tom Watkins was born in post-war Blackheath, South-East London. He started his career working for Terence Conran and Rodney Fitch before taking his passion for design into music. His influence can been seen all over 80s pop-culture, on the album sleeves of Wham, Grace Jones, Art of Noise and Frankie Goes to Hollywood among others. Tom is perhaps best known as the music manager and marketing genius behind the Pet Shop Boys, Bros and East 17. One of the pioneers of the boy band, Tom helped shaped pop music as we know it today. Tom has been working with Matthew Lindsay, a writer who has published articles in The Quietus and Mojo4Music.

Tom Watkins was replaced with Jill Carrington at 1989. As a teenager, Jilly worked in a pet shop as a Saturday girl. Rather fortuitously, after finishing her education, Jilly was offered a job in a Polydor record company as a secretary. Although not a terribly good secretary, she then went on to become the marketing director of Parlophone Records and latterly managed the Pet Shop Boys for nine years. She has then quit managing PSB to spend more time with her son. She now makes miniature dogs, sculpted from raw wool. Check her website jillycarrington.com.

Mitch is a music lady with serious credentials and seriously fabulous stories. She comes from the Land Down Under, with an English Grandfather who inspired her love of music and a real interest in life in London. At 22 years old, she arrived with a friend to a Bayswater bedsit. And from there to the stars, literally. After nine years at EMI, ending as VP, International Promotion and Artist Relations, she managed the Pet Shop Boys and then on to Sanctuary Music Management as VP for the Urban Division, working closely with Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Kelis, Chaka Khan and many more.

Dave Dorrell started DJing when he was a teenager. At highschool he got into smoking dope and listening to Reggae and at the age of 16 he was asked together with his friend Chris to DJ at the 6th form party. They turned up with a box of seven inch records and with a sound system that had to be lifted off a lorry. After that they played in local pubs and stuff like that.
RAW started about ’84–’85 and lasted till '87-'88 in a venue at the centre of London. Oliver Peyton did the interior and Dave Dorrell stated DJing together with Rob Milton who like Dave also played at the Dirtbox. Later on also Ben and Andy (Bollerhouse) became DJ at Raw. When Rob left the country he was replaced by CJ Mackintosh. Raw was also the place where Dave played his first acid house record, namely ‘Funkin With The Drums" from Farley Fiunkin Keith with the tracks "Pump-N the Bass", "Jacking the Bass", "Track-N The Beats With Linn", "Snare Crazy" and "Bass Love". He however had problems with giving these tracks a place in his playlists. But around 1987 he got a few acid tracks, as "Land of Confusion" and "Acid Trax" at the same time and he started to experiment with it on the dancefloor and the crowd loved it.
In the mid/late 80s he was signed to ZTT as a member of Nasty Rox Inc., and was involved in the legendary M/A/R/R/S hit "Pump Up The Volume". He also headed-up Love Records.
Nowadays he works on the business side of the industry - his London-based company is named Dorrell Management. Over the years, he has worked for a vast array of artists, from Bush to Pet Shop Boys. He also briefly managed Heller & Farley.

Pet Shop Boys recently appointed a new manager, Angela Becker, to represent them around the world. Angela is based in London and co-managed Madonna from 2004 to the beginning of 2008 when she left work to have a baby. In 2006 she and her co-manager won the Billboard Manager of the Year award. She becomes Pet Shop Boys' fifth UK manager, following Tom Watkins, Jill Carrington, Mitch Clark and David Dorrell.