Photos by Frank Leppard
Synth-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys are in Margate filming a video for a new single.
Vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, who launched the Pet Shop Boys in 1981, have been filming by Turner Contemporary, the Lido and the Kings Steps.
The duo have sold more than 50 million records worldwide and released newest album Nonetheless on April 26 through Parlophone Records.
“Nonetheless” features ten tracks with deluxe editions including a bonus four-track EP, “Furthermore.”
Latest single from the album, Dancing Star, is due out on May 3.
The Pet Shop Boys are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.
Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, since 1984 they have achieved 42 top 30 singles, 22 of these being top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including four UK number ones: “West End Girls,” “It’s a Sin.” a synth-pop version of “Always on My Mind” and “Heart.”
The duo are embarking on Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live tour this Summer.
Are they like Taylor Swift??? Or better
They were great from 1985 through until around 1997-then it all went pear-shaped.
Never did like them.
They paid your rent when you wrote about them, have some more heart.
I’ve never written about them.
Was it pet shop boys filming on Broadstairs beach yesterday too ?
Loved swimming at Lido.That it is a decaying backdrop for a music video is a disgrace.
Dave
You are missing the point. The decaying background is arty
Emin probably once urinated on it during her multi-million award winning dirty bed yoof era, so it has protected & ‘art’ deity status.
Go West (I wish they would)
What ,with Taylor Swift
No, she’s welcome. She can buy a one-bed flat in Sweyn Road if she likes. No problem.
Give me Tina Turner any day – an artist so great, they named a popular Margate building after her!
She inspired that popular phrase ‘I can Tina Turner’
They really are in Suburbia.
The guy in the bow tie; is that Freddie ‘parrot face’ Davis?
Steve Ladyman