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Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys used to work for Smash Hits magazine.

He was offered a job at Smash Hits as news editor of the British teen pop magazine in 1982. The following year, he became assistant editor. He also edited The Smash Hits Yearbook from 1982 to 1985.

At Smash Hits, an opportunity arose for him to go to New York to interview The Police. While there, Tennant arranged to meet Bobby Orlando, a producer whom he and Lowe admired. Tennant mentioned he was writing songs in his spare time, and Orlando agreed to record some tracks with him and Lowe at a later date. Orlando produced the Pet Shop Boys' first single "West End Girls".

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"Disappointed" is the fourth single released by English alternative dance group Electronic.Like their first single "Getting Away with It", it features Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys as well as founding members Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.

It was released on 22 June 1992 on Parlophone soon after the demise of Factory Records.

The single was assigned the Factory catalogue number FAC 348, and the logo of the label remained on the artwork.Upon the song's release, it reached the top 20 in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

It also peaked within the top 10 on three US Billboard charts - US Dance Club Play, US Maxi-Singles Sales & US Modern Rock Tracks.In July 1992, the song was featured in the soundtrack of the live-action/animation hybrid mystery movie Cool World and its inclusion both in the film and on its soundtrack album was advertised on the US single release.

The song was based on a piano riff by Marr's brother Ian; and worked up into a full backing-track by Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.They decided to ask Neil Tennant to complete the song and he wrote the lyrics and vocal melody.Some of the words ("Disenchanted once more...") were partly inspired by Mylène Farmer's 1991 hit "Désenchantée".

Tennant travelled to Manchester to record the lead vocal and a few weeks later went to Paris to attend the final mix of the song by Stephen Hague."Disappointed" was conceived just before the recording of New Order's sixth studio album Republic, and was performed live in December 1991 on Electronic's European tour: in Glasgow (sung by Bernard Sumner) and in London (sung by Tennant when Pet Shop Boys guested on three songs).

"Disappointed" was the last Electronic single to be released on all four major formats (7-inch, 12-inch, CD, and cassette).The content of the single was more dynamic than its predecessors, however; it had only one remix of the A-side (by 808 State; titled "808 Mix" in the US and "12-inch remix" in the UK), an additional treatment of a 1991 album track ("Idiot Country", with Ultimatum), and an earlier mix of "Disappointed" (called "Electronic Mix" in the US).The A-side of the single is itself a remix since producer Stephen Hague reworked the "Original Mix" for single release.

Although Electronic would enjoy three more top-twenty singles in the United Kingdom, "Disappointed" was the last major commercial success for the band on an international level, becoming a dance chart hit in the United States and reaching the top 20 in Germany as well as number six in the UK, their highest-charting effort there.

Until the release of Get the Message – The Best of Electronic in 2006, the track was not available on an Electronic album release.

However, since "Disappointed" was featured in the 1992 film Cool World, the song was available on the soundtrack album Songs from the Cool World.Roger Morton of NME was negative in his review, calling the song "effortless in the worse sense" and one that "drifts off into a no man's land of half-hearted disco miserablism".

He commented that Sumner and Marr "have programmed in the garagey synth lines and soft pedal Italian piano, and left out any semblance of melody", while Tennant "murmurs a few lugubrious lines with the enthusiasm of a narcoleptic jellyfish".

Andrew Mueller of Melody Maker felt it "sounds as if minimum effort was exerted over its creation" and concluded, "This sounds like a Pet Shop Boys album track. This yaws where they have stretched.”

"Electronic - Disappointed (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]

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Paralyzed in the Purple Zone.

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underatted underatted…. my beloved

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Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - Album: Please - (1986) - Pop -

🎙️ARTIST: Pet Shop Boys📣TITLE: West And Girls💿ALBUM: Please📆RELEASED: (1986) La Note Firebarzzz Les Pet Shop Boys ont marqué l’année 1986 avec leur chanson emblématique “West End Girls”. Sorti en ce temps-là, ce single a propulsé le duo britannique, composé de Neil Tennant et Chris Lowe, sur la scène internationale de la musique pop. La chanson, imprégnée d’une atmosphère urbaine et d’un son…

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neil in his hotel near blackpool eating his breakfast and listening to bbc radio 2 play feel on the radio

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Wishing a very happy birthday to Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys! #petshopboys #pettext #petheads #neiltennant

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Happy Birthday. Today, July 10, 1954 – #NeilTennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (#PetShopBoys) was born.

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Neil Tennant (Performance Tour 1991)

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"Getting Away with It" is the first single by the English band Electronic, which comprised Bernard Sumner of New Order, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, and guesting vocalist Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. 

It was first released in 1989.

Musically, Bernard Sumner wrote the verse and Johnny Marr wrote the chorus.

The lyrics, co-written by Tennant with Sumner, are a parody of Marr's Smiths partner Morrissey, and his public stereotyping as morose and masochistic (Pet Shop Boys would further satirise this trend on their 1990 song "Miserablism").

Morrissey, for his part, criticized the song in a 1991 interview, calling it "totally useless" and joking that the song had a "very apt title".

In a 2021 interview with Music Radar, Marr revealed that Chris Lowe also worked on the track, citing the bassline as his work. 

ABC and The The, Drummer David Palmer programmed the track's drums.

Two music videos were made for "Getting Away with It".

The first, directed by Chris Marker and produced by Michael Shamberg for European use in 1989, featured Sumner, Marr and Tennant in a studio environment miming to the single edit of the song.

Additional footage of Marker's muse Catherine Belkhodja, strolling among peacocks through Paris Zoo and also singing to the track, was left out.

The second video, shot in 1990, was made for the US release.

Sumner and Tennant appeared, alternately, against a series of coloured backgrounds, with artistic effects superimposed.

Two women's faces are also panned in close-up.

The later version is available on the 2006 Get the Message DVD.

Electronic - Getting Away With It (1990 Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]

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Neil introduces "from Blackpool, Lancashire, the one and only Mr Chris Lowe" and breaks into laughter mid-song as Chris messes up and plays out of tune (proof that he's playing live lol). They both crack up as if it's just the two of them watching TV on a Sunday afternoon, as if the world isn't watching. "He can't remember the chords," Neil jokes and adds "We were NEVER being boring, particularly in the end."

One true Lowetennant moment. 💗💗

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