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Closer to Heaven a Pet Shop Boys musical still on

Closer to Heaven a Pet Shop Boys musical still on until the weekend at the Turbine Theatre, London.

"Premiering in the West End in 2001, productions of Closer To Heaven have played worldwide in the decades since, now returning to the city where it all started. Set in ‘Vic’s Club’, a gay club which features regular performances from past her prime singer Billie Trix, the story centres around Vic’s daughter Chelle who falls in love with the club’s newest bartender “Straight Dave”. However, Dave’s name proves to not be so fitting when a love triangle emerges as he falls in love with drug dealer Mile End Lee. As the characters battle to try and rise above their station, who if any of them will get a happy ending?"

"Closer To Heaven features an original club score by Pet Shop Boys and originally premiered at the Arts Theatre in 2001. The Pet Shop Boys are the UK's most successful pop duo, having enjoyed 12 Top Ten studio albums and 40 Top Twenty singles."

During the MCMLXXXIX Tour in Hong Kong 1989. Now

During the MCMLXXXIX Tour in Hong Kong 1989.

Now comes shopping. We canter around deeply posh fashion places and Pete, their assistant, sports some Porsche ski goggles – just one rectangular band across both eyes – that Chris buys for about £40. “It’s a snip,” he confides.

By now we feel like a cup of tea so we enter the lounge of the Mandarin hotel. We are told there is a problem – shorts, which Neil is wearing, are not allowed. The assistant manager must be consulted. When the assistant manager arrives, he takes much pleasure in snottily telling us to go elsewhere. He is so rude that everyone is incensed.

“I’m famous for getting annoyed by petty figures of authority,” says Neil. “Like when I got through customs I almost tremble with rage because I hate them so much. Once the man was convinced I had drugs on me. He was looking through everything and I said, ‘I know what you're looking for and I haven't got anything – I don’t take drugs’ and he said ‘Oh, is that so, sire? It’s just that you look rather nervous’. I felt like hitting him.

- Smash Hits, 1989

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Shadows on the sun Another night's begun It's alwa

Shadows on the sun
Another night's begun
It's always dark
In Luna Park
Wind across the moon
Electric storms and soon
A flying spark
In Luna Park

And when we're getting higher
We're happy
Somebody's eating fire
We're happy
The big wheel in the sky
Will make you scream

Come on, join a line
The ghost train leaves on time
It's always dark
In Luna Park
On the shooting range
The plastic prizes never change
So make your mark
On Luna Park

And when we're getting higher
We're happy
Somebody's eating fire
We're happy
The big wheel in the sky
Will make you scream

Thunder. I wonder?
A storm will come one day
To blow us all away
Like dust on the moon
In Luna Park
It can't be dark
Too soon

A storm is coming soon
Like dust on the moon

Every night we go
To the latest horror show
And hear the screams
In Luna dreams
Fortune-tellers muse
On palms that bode bad news
The future's dark
In Luna Park

And when we're feeling scared
We're happy
With circuses and bread
We're happy
The whirling fair machines
Are all we need

Thunder. I wonder?
A storm will come one day
To blow us all away
Like dust on the moon
In Luna Park
It can't be dark
Too soon

Luna Park, track 7, Fundamental

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One thing that's funny about the Pet Shop Boys at

One thing that's funny about the Pet Shop Boys at the moment is the way Chris is still listening to loads of obscure House records and dancing the small hours away at underground dance "raves", while Neil is listening to loads more classical and stage musical records and becoming involved with things of a more "refined" nature. For a start there's the sort of antiques shop thing called the Decorative Arts Project which he's opened in London with their ex-manager Tom Watkins.

"Well, it's actually called the Decorative Arts Group, not project."

Pardon moi.

"As it happens I quite like the Decorative Arts Project. It sounds even posher haha. I thought it would be quite interesting because the arts world is very interesting actually. The idea behind the shop is that when you go there you buy things from room settings, so there's a bedroom, there's a kitchen etc. So all the furniture and the art and the ceramics are presented in a room situation..."

"And of course you can stay the night there if you like..." jibes Chris.

And what about your "Bingo Bango Bongo" nights Chris? What exactly are they?

"Oh yes! Well, the first one was just the after-tour party. We'd gone to a club in Hong Kong called 'Bingo Bango Bongo', so we named it after that and it was really good fun. And then our assistant Pete wanted to throw a surprise birthday party for me and it became 'Bingo Bango Bongo 2'. And so there will probably be more 'Bingo Bango Bongo' events. Eventually I'd quite like to buy a club, but that's just a possibility..."

-Smash Hits 1988

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Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld Tour Wembley 17th June, 2

Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld Tour Wembley 17th June, 2023

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Neil Tennant talking to Sarah Greene on Going Live

Neil Tennant talking to Sarah Greene on Going Live about the Performance Tour, 1991

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A letter written by Neil Tennant, thanking Radio 1

A letter written by 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, Manchester, UK.

Tennant says he remembers writing to several DJs - including David "Kid" Jensen, Gary Crowley and Janice Long, who sadly died two years ago - giving them 12-inch copies of the original mix.

"They all played it on their radio shows which was very exciting for us, in spite of the record not entering even the Top 100. It was a start," he tells the BBC.

"The Bobby 'O' album was never finished but songs we recorded with him included It's A Sin, Rent and Opportunities.

"Janice remained a friendly supporter of PSB and Chris and I always enjoyed seeing her. She interviewed us for her BBC Wales show in 2020 and sadly that was the last time we saw her.

"I'm very happy to remember her as an honorary Pet Shop Girl!"

Pristine copies of West End Girls' first pressing can sell for up to £200 - but Trevor Morris sold his copy, complete with Tennant's letter, for just £40 last week.

"I'm not so sure it's a priceless collector's item," he says. "I think it's probably priceless to somebody that loves the Pet Shop Boys, but worth tuppence ha'penny to somebody else.

"You know, the whole point of this shop is not for it to be a massive money spinner. It's really about sharing music with people."

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Inward flight: Pet Shop Boys decided on a radical

Inward flight: Pet Shop Boys decided on a radical production approach for Introspective

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The computer imagery of Can You Forgive Her came f

The computer imagery of Can You Forgive Her came from the fertile mind of Chris Lowe, who took Sonic the Hedgehog and wondered "wouldn't it be great if we became thing thing existing in a non-real world"

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Scene from 'It Couldn't Happen Here' Pet Shop Boys

Scene from 'It Couldn't Happen Here' Pet Shop Boys waiting on the platform for King's Cross.

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Pet Shop Boys 1980's

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Dear Get Smart!, On Saturday August 27 I was liste

Dear Get Smart!,
On Saturday August 27 I was listening to Simon Bates' radio programme about some blokes called Brecht and Weill when suddenly out tootled a song by the Pet Shop Boys called "What Keeps Mankind Alive". What's it all about and will they be releasing it as a single?
Neil Tennant's Larynx, West Bromwich

Bertolt Brecht was a German political writer who, during his lifetime, knocked up rather a lot of plays about social and political issues. Quite a few of them featured some odd, discordant songs which were all written by Bertolt's pal Kurt Weill. Their most famous work together was the "Threepenny Opera". "What Keeps Mankind Alive" is a song taken from that opera and what you heard was the Pet Shop Boys re-jiggled version with the Communards' Richard Coles doing the fancy bits....

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