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‘I thought – if I die, I’ve had a good innings’: producer James Ford on life, death and making an album from his hospital bed

The Arctic Monkeys, Pet Shop Boys and Pulp collaborator was Britain’s most in-demand producer when leukaemia struck. ‘I realised life is exceptionally fragile,’ he says

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“You could do a medley of It’s a Sin with The Final Countdown by Europe; in fact, I don’t know why we haven’t done that”: How the Pet Shop Boys took on the church with their most iconic, most “heavy metal” song

Hi-NRG meets Catholic orthodoxy - we analyse the Pet Shop Boys' masterwork

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Victor Willis, frontman of Village People, dies age 74

The co-writer of enduring hits such as YMCA and Macho Man, who struggled with drug use and legal issues for years, passed away after ‘short but aggressive illness’

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"Mr Rotten joins in the fight, and has a few kicks at the victim." 50 years on, Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant still has vivid memories of seeing the Sex Pistols for the first time in 1976

An early Sex Pistols show made quite an impact on Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant

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Pet Shop Boys review – no hits? No problem on first night of a masterful obscurities run

The era-defining duo’s ultras are suitably spoiled in the first of this intimate five-day run, showered with rarities that put a different spin on their well-known history

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‘Barbara Windsor smacked our bottoms!’ Pet Shop Boys on showstopping visuals, horrified bosses – and snubbing the queen

As a 600-page doorstopper celebrates their groundbreaking costumes, gigs, sleeves and videos, the duo talk about ‘side-stepping the pop-star thing’ – and the naked trampolinist EMI had to censor

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Chaos, connection and catastrophic cringe: The best karaoke scenes in movies

As Sandra Hüller takes to the mic for a rendition of 'Sign of the Times' in sci-fi blockbuster 'Project Hail Mary,' Euronews Culture looks back at cinema's most memorable karaoke scenes.

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Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies questions Heated Rivalry’s ‘revolutionary’ tag

TV showrunner bristled at fans comparing the hit Canadian series to his Nineties drama about gay men in Manchester

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Hit Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin to be adapted for the stage by Russell T Davies

Showrunner Russell T Davies will serve as an executive producer

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Russell T Davies and Pet Shop Boys collaborate on new Channel 4’s It’s A Sin production

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Russell T Davies’s hit TV series It’s a Sin to be adapted as ‘visceral’ dance show

New work will be choreographed and directed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director of Rambert, with Davies and Pet Shop Boys serving as executive producers

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Russell T Davies and Pet Shop Boys to reimagine It’s A Sin as dance production

Davies, 62, created the award-winning TV series in 2021.

Evening Standard

Ron Howard, Emma Rice, Neil Tennant and more on Liza Minnelli: ‘She holidayed in my Cornish bungalow’

The showbiz legend has spent her whole life in the spotlight. As she turns 80, her friends and collaborators share their stories from Hollywood singalongs to acid house raves

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“I lay on my floor one night and wrote the whole thing": 40 years on – the making of West End Girls

From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station… Here's all the ups, downs, history, mystery, studio secrets and more of Pet Shop Boys' biggest hit

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‘Men explicitly loving men is so threatening to the status quo’: why are gay male pop stars being shut out of the music industry?

Not long ago, artists such as Lil Nas X and Olly Alexander were ruling pop. But success has stalled as acts face industry obstacles and rising homophobia. What now?

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Dave Ball of Soft Cell Dies 'Peacefully in His Sleep' at Age 66, Cause of Death Remains Undisclosed

Dave Ball, one-half of synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died peacefully at age 66. Tributes from Marc Almond and collaborators highlight his lasting impact on pop and electronic music ahead of the band's upcoming 'Danceteria' album.

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Battleship Potemkin review – Eisenstein’s explosive movie still burns bright

With a new score by Pet Shop Boys, the Russian director’s masterpiece remains a stunning paean to revolution

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Pet Shop Boys, freaks and witches: the strange genius of Jack Bond and Jane Arden

Bond, who died in December, made some of the most original films in British cinema history – particularly the unsettling films he and Arden made together in the 1960s and 70s

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“Nobody ever asks Pet Shop Boys if they can play the piano”: Pop masterminds Saint Etienne have great news for anyone who can’t play an instrument

About to release their last album, the band reminisce on their 13-album career and why not being able to play is actually “an asset"

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‘The giant penis took shape easily, as I passed through a village called Three Cocks’: meet the artist athletes drawing with GPS

From the phallus on a Welsh hillside, to a huge portrait of Chappell Roan, these Strava runners, riders and skaters have been busy …

Evening Standard

Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant says copy of Smash Hits inspired him to go classical

Sleep Of Reason, which Tennant will release with Mark Springer, will see him sing over classical arrangements.

MusicRadar

"Our song about a guy angry after a break-up is really about Putin and the former Soviet republics": The Pet Shop Boys' Russian lament - Neil Tennant talks war and more

As one of the biggest Western bands in Russia, and as an ex-Editor himself, Tennant’s new Russian reminiscences make remarkable reading

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‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’

They played Red Square, launched MTV Russia and got driven home from a gay club by the police. But the freedoms witnessed by Pet Shop Boys have been crushed. Singer Neil Tennant relives those heady days – and calls for a revolution

The Guardian - UK

Jack Bond obituary

Film director and producer who worked with Salvador Dalí and the Pet Shop Boys

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Taylor Swift soap, saucy socks and Pet Shop Boys tea sets: it’s the culture Christmas gift guide 2024

From a Snoop Dogg firepit to a sweater celebrating the brutalist genius of Preston bus station, here are 40 fabulous festive suggestions for the culture vulture in your life

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