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The digital home of music journalist Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the bestselling biography of Gordon Lightfoot. Includes a searchable database of current and archived work, including thousands of record reviews and feature articles.

Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3

Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3They’ve dabbled in Latin music, remakes of The Village People—even a gay musical on London’s West End. But Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe know their bread is buttered in dance clubs. On their latest, they’ve enlisted remixers to rework such early tracks as “If Looks Could Kill” and “Try It (I’m in love with a married man).” While the album does feature new offerings like the dreamy “Somebody Else’s Business,” gone are the deadpan lyrics that made the Boys such a clever pop phenomenon.

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