'Priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter found in record shop
The Pet Shop Boys were just starting out when they wrote a thank-you letter to Radio 1's Janice LongA letter written by Pet Shop Boys star Neil Tennant, thanking Radio 1's Janice Long for playing the band's debut single in 1984, has been discovered in a record shop in Altrincham.
"I met the disco producer Bobby 'O' in New York last summer when I was over there doing a feature on The Police," writes the then-29-year-old, The discovery is significant because this early version of West End Girls was a significant false start for the Pet Shop Boys.But when the song started to achieve success in European clubs, they were snapped up by Parlophone and re-recoded the song with new lyrics and production by Stephen Hague.The revised version hit number one in the US and UK in 1986, setting in motion an impeccable run of hits, including Rent, Left To My Own Devices, It's A Sin and Being Boring.
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