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Pet Shop Boys release their new double A-side single, ‘New London boy’ / ‘All the young dudes’, today, November 7. The single is available now as two digital bundles and from November 15 as two CD singles.
The first five-track format includes a new radio edit of ‘New London boy’ and a cover version of the David Bowie-penned ‘All the young dudes’ produced by James Ford with orchestral arrangements by Anne Dudley. Pet Shop Boys originally performed this song in February in BBC Radio 2’s ‘Piano Room’. The lyrics of ‘New London boy’ are about Neil moving to London in 1972 at the height of the glam rock era when ‘All the young dudes’ was a hit – linking the two songs thematically. The bundle also includes a different ‘Delinquent’ version of ‘All the young dudes’ produced by Pet Shop Boys and an extended remix by Richard X, plus a previously unreleased song, ‘Beauty has laid siege to the city’, which was written and recorded in 2020 and uses a quotation from the 19th century illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley, as the title.
The second four-track format features a Richard X edit and I. JORDAN remix of ‘All the young dudes’, a Boy Harsher remix of ‘New London boy’ and the song ‘Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus’, which was originally written and recorded in 2015 and included as a bonus track on the Japanese deluxe edition of the ‘Nonetheless’ CD.
The digital bundles are available now. The CD singles will be released on Friday November 15 and are available to pre-order now. The cover art for the first format/CD1 features a photo of Neil taken that year when he first moved to London, while the second format/CD2 cover is a picture of Chris shot in 1981, the year he arrived in the city.
The full tracklisting for the single digital bundle/CDs is –
CD1 – New London boy / All the young dudes
1. New London boy (radio edit)
2. All the young dudes
3. Beauty has laid siege to the city
4. All the young dudes (Delinquent mix)
5. All the young dudes (Richard X longest mix)
CD2 – All the young dudes / New London boy
1. All the young dudes (Richard X edit)
2. New London boy (Boy Harsher remix)
3. Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus
4. All the young dudes (I. JORDAN remix)
Pet Shop Boys released their fifteenth album, ‘Nonetheless’, produced by James Ford, on Parlophone Records in April. The record includes the singles ‘Loneliness’, ‘Dancing star’, ‘A new bohemia’ and ‘Feel’ and reached Number 2 in the UK album chart in its first week of release – their highest-charting studio album since 1993. A special expanded edition of the album will be released on November 22 featuring the full record, four new bonus songs and the original demo versions of all the tracks on the album. It can be pre-ordered now.
Last week they announced that they will release a special PSB-themed tea set. The products are the first to be launched as part of the new Pet Shop Boys since 1984 range to commemorate 40 years since the release of the duo’s debut single – the original version of ‘West End girls’. The limited-edition collection – designed by long-term collaborators Farrow with Tennant and Lowe and manufactured by Duchess China – features a tea pot, cups and saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl. The tea sets are on sale from November 20 and available to pre-order now.
In July Pet Shop Boys concluded the latest UK and European dates of their ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’ tour with a sold-out residency at London’s Royal Opera House which received five-star press reviews, and in September they headlined the Sunday night at this year’s BBC Radio 2 in the Park in Preston. This Sunday they will perform at the MTV EMAs in Manchester at the Co-op Live arena and from November 11-14, 11pm-12am, Pet Shop Boys will present shows for BBC Radio 6 Music’s Artist in Residence.
Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records, released 60 singles spanning five decades and are listed in The Guinness Book of Records as the most successful UK duo of all time.
