Pet Shop Boys: Very (Parlophone)
Mat Snow, Q, November 1993
NEXT YEAR Neil Tennant celebrates both his 40th birthday and the tenth anniversary of the first Pet Shop Boys record, 'West End Girls'. Chances are he will look back on a career well past its popular peak yet amply endowed with a solid body of work and an institutional status just to the left of mainstream.
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