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 album’s name and sound extremely polite while doing so. “Do you have the new Pet Shop Boys album, Please?” Very English. Very ironic. Forty years later, record shops have practically vanished, but the duo is still going strong — more active than ever and now the most successful duo in British history, and among the most successful in the world. And they’ve never lost that dry sense of humour.

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