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Go West Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Calling Card
Neil Tennant may have hated the Village People, but he loved the Pet Shop Boys' status in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles: the Pet Shop Boys had had a hit each year since the 1984 release of "West...
Music
The Pet Shop Boys took a disco song and turned it into an electronic utopian dream, creating an overly grandiose (if absurd) anthem out of a cheerful ditty. Neil Tennant, though he initially disli...
