Tracks of My Years

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Tracks Of My Years

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Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and and their favourite records.

Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and career and their favourite records.

Tracks Of My Years: Pet Shop Boys

09/06/2024

Pet Shop Boys

BBC Radio 2 - Tracks Of My Years, Pet Shop Boys

In this week's Tracks of OUR Years, Pet Shop boys pick their inspirational songs.

In this week’s Tracks of OUR Years Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe better known to you and me as Pet Shop Boys, will be choosing the tunes that have inspired them.

In this week’s Tracks of OUR Years omnibus edition is Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe better known to you and me as Pet Shop Boys, they will be choosing the tunes that have inspired them.

Neil and Chris met in a London Hi-Fi store in 1981 and bonded over a mutual love for disco and electronic music, drawing inspiration from synth-pop pioneers like OMD, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode.

They have sold over 50 million records worldwide in an astonishing career spanning four decades. From their breakthrough hits “West End Girls” and “It’s A Sin” to working with such luminaries as Dusty Springfield, Liza Minnelli, Madonna and Lady Gaga, their songs have been at the forefront of electronic music.

Pet Shop Boys began 2024 with a brand new single “Loneliness” from their current album “Nonetheless”. They recently performed that single in Radio 2’s Piano Room as well as a brilliant cover of Mott The Hoople’s “All The Young Dudes” and they’ll be playing five nights at London’s Royal Opera House in July.  AND it was announced last week that the will be closing Radio 2’s In The Park in Preston this year.

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