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Pet Shop Boys: Yes

Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 26 March 2009

NEARLY 30 YEARS ON, the Gilbert and George of pop are still charmers. Like two Planet Pop missionaries sent to cheer us up in the ...

Pet Shop Boys: Yes

Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, March 2009

WHILE THE unexpectedly sharp return-to-form of last album, 2006's Fundamental, confirmed that the Pet Shop Boys should never be discounted, it's been more than a ...

Pet Shop Boys: Oh Mister Songwriters!

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1992

What is it like, that magical moment when the creative juices start to flow? Is it one glorious spurt? Or merely a dutiful grind? The ...

Pet Shop Boys: Pandemonium

Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, February 2010

ANYONE WHO caught the Pet Shop Boys touring their superb Yes album – BBC Music's number one Pop & Chart album of 2009 – last ...

Pet Shop Boys: Format 1995-2009

Review by Jude Rogers, The Word, March 2012

Pet Shop Boys' later B-sides — now compiled into a titillating album — offer an alternative narrative to the last two decades. ...

Pet Shop Boys: Cheeseburgers, Carrot Cake and Coffee (yum!?)

Report and Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 27 March 1988

That's the rather odd "combination" that the Pet Shop Boys seek out when they have some time to "kill" in New York. "I'll have some ...

Pet Shop Boys on The Most Incredible Thing

Report and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2011

The Pet Shop Boys have joined forces with Sadler's Wells on The Most Incredible Thing, a ballet based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. ...

Pet Shop Boys: Please (Parlophone PS81)**

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 29 March 1986

AUF WIEDERSEHEN PETS ...

Pet Shop Boys: Our Back Catalogue Is 25 Years Of Social Commentary

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 March 2009

Julian Marszalek meets pop renaissance man Neil Tennant to talk Potemkin, production and pop ...

Pet Shop Boys: What Does It Take To Make These Men Happy?

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 26 February 1986

A NUMBER ONE RECORD? GETTING ON THE COVER OF SMASH HITS? LOTS OF LOVELY MONEY?  WELL, THEY'VE HAD ALL THAT AND THEY STILL LOOK LIKE ...

Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Pet Shop Boys: When song lyrics become literature

Essay by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 2 January 2019

From Pet Shop Boys to Kate Bush, pop stars are publishing their songs as books. What do their words reveal about them? ...

Pet Shop Boys: Neil Tennant: Smash Hits Editor For A Day!?

Report and Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 25 February 1987

Oh no! What to do? The Editor had flounced off to some so-called "conference", with half an issue of Britain's Brightest Pop Magazine still to ...

Dire Straits, Spandau Ballet, Pet Shop Boys: BPI Awards: Middle-age Spread

Report by Jon Savage, The Observer, 15 February 1987

JON SAVAGE takes a sceptical look at the BPI Awards ...

Mel & Kim, Pet Shop Boys: Phil Harding and Ian Curnow: Production Lines

Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 4 February 1989

PAUL MATHUR TALKS TO PHIL HARDING AND IAN CURNOW, KEYWORKERS IN THE SAW HIT FACTORY ...

Pet Shop Boys: Neil Tennant At The British Record Industry Awards

Report by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 28 February 1985

You saw Prince. You heard Frankie. You felt the warmth of Wham's sun tans. You watched the TV show but now read THE FULL STORY! ...