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Interesting PSB related facts... Neil's dad used to work for a Swedish rubber company. Chris's grandad was in a comedy group called The Nitwits - he played the trombone, wore a wig and had a big gout bandage over his foot that people used to trip over. Neil and Chris chose the names for their first two studio albums from things that they both say in everyday life hence 'Please' for the first album and 'Actually' for the second. Pet Shop Boys appeared on the front page of 'The War Cry' - the Salvation Army's newspaper. Their names were also mentioned in many church sermons - all because 'It's a sin' was number one in the charts at the time and caused controversy between various people. When 'Please', the first PSB album sold over a million copies in the US (Platinum), their record company gave them a glass dumb-bell called Infinity as a momento. Pet Shop Boys turned down an offer to write part of the soundtrack with DJ Rap for the Mission: Impossible 2 album. |
