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    In 1986, the first album by a British duo called Pet Shop Boys was released. The title, Please, was an inside joke: the two musicians liked the idea that, in order to buy it, fans would have to say the albumโ€™s name and sound extremely polite while doing so. โ€œDo you have the new Pet Shop Boys album, Please?โ€ Very English. Very ironic. Forty years later, record shops have practically vanished, but the duo is still going strong โ€” more active than ever and now the most successful duo in British hist
     

The Pet Shop Boys: 40 years of hits, activism and risky decisions

15 April 2026 at 15:07

In 1986, the first album by a British duo called Pet Shop Boys was released. The title, Please, was an inside joke: the two musicians liked the idea that, in order to buy it, fans would have to say the albumโ€™s name and sound extremely polite while doing so. โ€œDo you have the new Pet Shop Boys album, Please?โ€ Very English. Very ironic. Forty years later, record shops have practically vanished, but the duo is still going strong โ€” more active than ever and now the most successful duo in British history, and among the most successful in the world. And theyโ€™ve never lost that dry sense of humour.

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The Pet Shop Boys โ€” that is, Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant โ€” pose in New York in April 1991. By then, they were already one of the biggest duos in pop. They still are.
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