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Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour (Parlophone)

Betty Page, Vox, November 1990

THE VEXED QUESTION is: what do we expect of The Pet Shop Boys? We expect, perhaps, in no particular order: excellent tunes, impossible-to-forget hooks; wry observation; deadpan humour; a studied, very English, cool; ground-breaking dance mixes, and maybe a change to that moodier atmosphere to balance it out nicely.

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