Pet Shop Boys have shared their cover of ‘All the young dudes’ and electro-pop single ‘New London boy’.
The double-A side single is available in two digital bundles, and forthcoming CD singles are set for release on November 15. You can pre-order and pre-save here.
The first five-track format includes a new radio edit of ‘New London boy’ and the synth-legends’ version of the David Bowie-penned ‘All The Young Dudes’, which they originally performed in a performance for BBC Radio 2 in February.
The lyrics of ‘New London boy’ are about Neil Tennant moving to London in its 1970s glam-rock heyday when Bowie’s track was a hit – “Follow the style, plastic and showy / Everyone’s dancing to Roxy and Bowie” – broadly linking the two songs.
The bundle also includes a different ‘Delinquent’ version of ‘All The Young Dudes’ produced by Pet Shop Boys, as well as an extended remix by Richard X and previously unreleased song, ‘Beauty Has Laid Siege To The City’.
The second four-track format features a Richard X edit and I. JORDAN remix, a Boy Harsher remix and the track ‘Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus’, originally written and recorded in 2015 and included as a bonus track on the Japanese deluxe edition of the
‘Nonetheless’ CD.
Last month, they released a new fine bone china tea set to celebrate four decades since their first release. As well as the tea set, Pet Shop Boys also announced a special expanded edition of their 15th studio album ‘Nonetheless’.
The James Ford-produced album originally arrived in April, and included singles ‘Loneliness’, ‘Dancing Star’, ‘A new bohemia’ and ‘Feel’. Peaking at Number Two in the UK album charts, it marked their highest charting album since 1993.
Earlier this year the band concluded their run of UK and European tour dates with a sold-out residency at London’s Royal Opera House, and were confirmed for the first edition of The London Soundtrack Festival in 2025.
Meanwhile, in an interview with NME back in April, Pet Shop Boys described ‘Nonetheless’ as their “queer album” and Neil Tennant, who came out as gay in 1994, discussed how things have changed for the queer community in pop culture since then.
“What I think now is that what you might call gay culture has become mainstream,” Tennant said. Several years ago, I went to see Jake Shears in Kinky Boots on Broadway. It was an essentially straight audience, and when the drag queens came on, they all went ballistic. I thought: ‘Wow, this whole thing’s just gone totally mainstream’ – and I think it’s ‘cause of RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
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