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Pet Shop Boys, The

British pop music duo that recorded a string of international hits, several of which topped the charts in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. The band comprised Neil Tennant (b. July 10, 1954Gosforth, Tyne and Wear, Eng.) and Chris Lowe (b. Oct. 4, 1959Blackpool, Lancashire).

Formed in London in 1981 by vocalist Tennant (then a writer for the music magazine Smash Hits) and keyboardist Lowe, the Pet Shop Boys arrived at a clever pairing of ironic, coolly delivered lyrics and catchy synthesizer-based dance music, underlain by emotional tension. Influenced by the music of gay nightclubs, the duo (who broke their carefully maintained sexual ambiguity when they came out in 1994) incorporated the sounds of disco, the frenetic style known as Hi-NRG, house, and techno. Their first single, "West End Girls," recorded with American producer Bobby ("O") Orlando, became a hit in France and Belgium in