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Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired

Three decades and 11 albums in, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe still feel like they are renting their place as unlikely pop starsOn the stage of HAU 1, a theatre in the Berlin hipster district of Kreuzberg, the Pet Shop Boys are performing a dress rehearsal. To the left, Neil Tennant stands at the microphone, smartly dressed and straight-backed. To the right, Chris Lowe pecks impassively at his keyboard, his eyes obscured by a curious hat: French Foreign legionnaire meets North Sea trawlerman.Thei...

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18:31 on September 13 2012

Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired

Guardian Music — Three decades and 11 albums in, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe still feel like they are renting their place as unlikely pop starsOn the stage of HAU 1, a theatre in the Berl... more info

22:24 on September 12 2012

The Pet Shop Boys talk new album 'Elysium,' and life in L.A.

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Pet Shop Boys have been indelibly linked with their hometown of London since their mid-’80s synth-pop hit “West End Girls.” Earlier this year, though, singer Ne... more info

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