The best No 1 records: Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls | Jude Rogers

1986: The second version of the duo's signature song took US electro and hip-hop to peculiar (and British) placesPop is often about the shock of the new. The Pet Shop Boys also understood the shock of older details: a 30-year-old in an overcoat delivering spoken-word statements about a city, and an opening line ("Sometimes you're better off dead") like a gambit from a Raymond Chandler thriller. At the same time, West End Girls did fresh, jolting things, taking US electro and hip-hop to peculiar ...

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