Morten Harket's New Solo Album Confirmed

A-ha's lead singer Morten Harket is working on a new solo album scheduled for release in March 2012. The album will be produced by Steve Osborne who has previously worked with New Order, Placebo and a-ha. The album will also feature special contributions by Pet Shop Boys and  Kent and it will be promoted during the full worldwide tour which will start in May 2012.

80's Duets: Dusty Springfiled and Pet Shop Boys- Nothing Has Been Proved

Pet shop Boys had two collaborations with the female singer Dusty Springfiled. Their first hit "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" was released in 1987 and became a huge hit in the UK and USA as well as Springfield's biggest hit in the US. The song's success helped revive Springfield's career and led to a resurgence of interest in her music. Following the duet the Pet Shop Boys wrote and produced the singles "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private" for Springfield, both included on her 1990 album 'Reputation'. The song prominently features an orchestral arrangement by Angelo Badalamenti and a tenor saxophone solo by Courtney Pine.

 "Nothing Has Been Proved" was composed specifically for the 1989 film 'Scandal' and the music video shows Springfield in the studio along with a Christine Keeler lookalike being interviewed with camera flash bulbs going off. Along with these come short reels from the film Scandal starring Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Sir Ian McKellen, Britt Ekland, and Bridget Fonda as well as original news footage from 1963. The Pet Shop Boys play journalists interviewing Christine.

 

Pet Shop Boys- The Ballet Score

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will release the music for their first ever full-length ballet, 'The Most Incredible Thing', on March 14 through Parlophone Records. The ballet is a collaboration with choreographer Javier De Frutos and Britain’s leading contemporary dance theatre, Sadler’s Wells. Based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same title, it runs at Sadler’s Wells in London from 17-26 March 2011.

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Pet Shop Boys' Ultimate

Pet Shop Boys will release a new compilation which celebrates 25 years of hits from "West End Girls" to "Love Etc". 'Ultimate', the compilation is scheduled for release on November 1, 2010 and it will feature a new single "Together" written and produced by Pet Shop Boys and Tim Powell.

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Pet Shop Boys- Being Boring

Continuing our Nude Wave: 80's music video nudity series.
The video for the song "Being Boring which was the second single release from the album 'Behaviour was directed by fashion-photographer Bruce Weber, totally in black and white, shows a house party and begins with a nude swimmer getting out of the swimming pool and jumping on a trampoline.

Best of 2009 - The Singles List

The best singles of 2009!

01.a-ha- Foot of the Mountain
02.Bat for Lashes- Daniel
03.Detachments- The Flowers That Fell
04.Florence + The Machine- Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
05.Mando Diao- Dance With Somebody
06.White Lies- Farewell to the Fairground
07.Pet Shop Boys- Love etc.
08.Depeche Mode- Fragile Tension
09.Fleet Foxes- Mykonos / False Knight on the Road
10. Editors- Papillon
11.Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes
12.Phoenix- Lisztomania
13. Florence + The Machine- You've Got the Love
14.Little Boots- Remedy
15.La Roux- Bulletproof
16.The Radio Dept.-David
17.Kasabian- Underdog
18. Camera Obscura- The Sweetest Thing
19. Noisettes-Never Forget You
20.White Lies- To Lose My Life
21.Natalie Imbruglia- Want
22.Empire of the Sun- We Are the People
23.Röyksopp- The Girl and the Robot
24.Metric- Help I'm Alive / Help I'm a B-Side
25.Animal Collective- My Girls

26.Depeche Mode- Perfect 27.Little Boots- Earthquake
28.Tiga- Shoes
29.Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson- Relator
30. Ladyhawke- Magic
31.Muse- Undisclosed Desires
32.Patrick Wolf- Vulture
33.Fleet Foxes- Your Protector
34. Metric- Sick Muse
35. Lily Allen- 22
36. Morrissey- I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
37. Voxtrot- Trepanation Party
38.Datarock- Give It Up
39.Bat for Lashes- Pearl's Dream
40. Music Go Music- Warm in the Shadows
41. Sonic Youth- Antenna
42. a-ha- Shadowside
43. Franz Ferdinand- Ulysses
44.Hockey- Song Away
45. Muse- United States of Eurasia
46. Doves- Kingdom of Rust
47.Simple Minds- Rockets
48.Bad Lieutenant- Sink or Swim
49.Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Zero
50.Tesla Boy- Electric Lady

Pet Shop Boys- Christmas EP

Pet Shop Boys will end this year with another release. They have confirmed their 'Christmas' EP release which is set to be released on several different dates in the world starting December 11, 2009 in Europe. The EP includes a cover of Madness' song "My Girl", along with a remix of it, as well as a medley of the Pet Shop Boys classic "Domino Dancing" with Coldplay's popular single "Viva la Vida" and two more songs.

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Pet Shop Boys > Rescue Shelter Boys!?

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe met in an electronics shop on Kings Road in Chelsea, London in August 1981 and soon recognized a mutual interest for dance music. Few years later they decided to form a band. Starting out, the two called themselves West End, because of their love of London's West End, but later they came up with the name Pet Shop Boys, which derived from some friends who worked in a pet shop, in Ealing.
24 years after their first hit "West End Girls" they were being asked by PETA to change their name. Their new name should be Rescue Shelter Boys!!! The musician refused but also added that none the less think (it) raises an issue worth thinking about.

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Pet Shop Boys- Yes

'Yes' is the tenth studio album by Pet Shop Boys.The album was recorded throughout 2008 and is produced by Pet Shop Boys with Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania. The UK release date has been confirmed to be 23 March 2009. The lead single, "Love etc.", was released a week earlier, on 16 March 2009.The U.S. release date is 21 April 2009.Limited edition bonus disc "Etc' also include a duet with Philip Oakey from the Human League in the song "This Used to Be the Future"

Listen to the new single:
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