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      West End Girls - Wikipedia
      • They re-released the song in late 1985, topping the charts in both the UK and the US.
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  2. The Pet Shop Boys then decided to re-record "West End Girls", and issue this new version as a single. Producer Stephen Hague helmed the new, re-recorded version of "West End Girls". [16]

  3. Apr 28, 2024 · In March 1985, after long negotiations, Pet Shop Boys ended their deal with Orlando, and hired manager Tom Watkins, who signed them with EMI. All the rejected James Bond themes, from Blondie to Pet Shop Boys; They then re-recorded 'West End Girls' with producer Stephen Hague, and re-released it in late 1985.

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  4. The place closed in 2004. This was the breakout hit for Pet Shop Boys, a global smash that went to #1 in both America and their native UK. The hit version, thought, wasn't released until a year after the original. The group wrote the song in 1983 before they had a record deal.

  5. Mar 4, 2021 · The Pet Shop Boys ' released a new version of the 1986 hit song 'West End Girls' and it sounds incredible. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe recorded the lyrics and mixed the iconic track from their respective homes during lockdown before releasing it on the Pet Shop Boys' official YouTube channel.

  6. The original production's success was eclipsed by the fully re-recorded, Stephen Hague produced version, first released in October 1985, on Parlophone and other EMI related labels. That version (see West End Girls ) became a global chart topping hit in late '85 and early '86.

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  7. May 21, 2024 · On 9 April 1984, ‘West End Girls’ was released bearing their new name Pet Shop Boys, an amalgam of US dance acts like B-Boys and Peech Boys and something “weird and English”, although, quite simply, Lowe’s Ealing flatmates worked in a pet shop. Issued on Orlando’s Bobcat label in the US, the UK 45 came out via Epic after A&R man ...

  8. Jul 3, 2022 · Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls” as we know it today is in fact a re-recorded, re-released version. The song was originally written in 1983 and first released in 1984. It was a club hit in the US and Europe but only available in the UK as a 12-inch import, just as the duo had wanted.

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