Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant Joins Bronski Beat On “Why?” 40th Anniversary Remix

The ’80s British synthpoppers Bronski Beat are not an active band. Keyboardist and percussionist Larry Steinbachek died of cancer in 2017, and Steve Bronski, the group’s namesake and cofounder, passed away in 2021. But Bronski Beat have a legacy to maintain, and it’s an important one, since they were an openly queer act that sang about queer issues and still found pop success in a hostile time. The legacy is also an evolving thing. Earlier this year, Bronski Beat’s hit “Smalltown Bo...

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