Johnny Marr Joins Pet Shop Boys For Some Oldies They’d Never Performed Before

UK legends Johnny Marr and the Pet Shop Boys go way, way back together. According to a 2009 Guardian story, Marr met the Pet Shop Boys by chance in a Los Angeles hotel elevator in 1987, just after he left the Smiths, and he told them how much he liked their song "Hit Music." PSB singer Neil Tennant appeared on "Getting Away With It," the 1989 debut single from Electronic, Marr's post-Smiths duo with New Order's Bernard Sumner, and on a few other Electronic tracks. Marr has played guitar on a gre...

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