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Pet Shop Boys: Heaven, London

David Quantick, New Musical Express, 2 November 1991

"WE'VE PLAYED 17 times," beams Neil Tennant, "and this is the first time the computers have gone down." While programmers rush round looking under lids, and most of the backing track of 'It's Alright' pumps out, Tennant begins one of the longest talk-overs in the history of pop.

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