Pet Shop Boys
Musician
Under the name Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are the most successful duo in UK music history. Since 1985 they have achieved 40 Top 20 singles in the UK including four #1s, and in the USA, six Top 20 singles including the #1 West End Girls. They have released 14 studio albums as of 2020, and collaborated with artists including Dusty Springfield, David Bowie and Liza Minnelli.
Not content with chart success, Pet Shop Boys have also written a score for a ballet (The Most Incredible Thing which won an Evening Standard Theatre Award in 2011) and also a West End musical (Closer to Heaven with playwright Jonathan Harvey). The duo created a soundtrack to the classic silent film, Battleship Potemkin, which was premiered in 2004 in Trafalgar Square, London. In 2012 they appeared before a worldwide television audience during the London Olympics’ closing ceremony. Two years later, their electronics/orchestral piece, A Man From The Future, received its world premiere as a Late Night Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
In their live shows over the last 20 years, Pet Shop Boys have created an original and influential style of pop musical theatre, collaborating with directors, designers and artists including Derek Jarman, David Alden and David Fielding, Zaha Hadid, Sam Taylor-Wood and Es Devlin.
Under the name Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are the most successful duo in UK music history. Since 1985 they have achieved 40 Top 20 singles in the UK including four #1s, and in the USA, six Top 20 singles including the #1 West End Girls. They have released 14 studio albums as of 2020, and collaborated with artists including Dusty Springfield, David Bowie and Liza Minnelli.
Not content with chart success, Pet Shop Boys have also written a score for a ballet (The Most Incredible Thing which won an Evening Standard Theatre Award in 2011) and also a West End musical (Closer to Heaven with playwright Jonathan Harvey). The duo created a soundtrack to the classic silent film, Battleship Potemkin, which was premiered in 2004 in Trafalgar Square, London. In 2012 they appeared before a worldwide television audience during the London Olympics’ closing ceremony. Two years later, their electronics/orchestral piece, A Man From The Future, received its world premiere as a Late Night Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
In their live shows over the last 20 years, Pet Shop Boys have created an original and influential style of pop musical theatre, collaborating with directors, designers and artists including Derek Jarman, David Alden and David Fielding, Zaha Hadid, Sam Taylor-Wood and Es Devlin.
