Pet Shop Boys were presented with the award for “Godlike Genius” at the culmination of the NME Awards in Brixton, London, last night. The award was presented to Neil and Chris by Johnny Marr who said that they had “changed pop music with hit after hit after hit”. Pet Shop Boys then performed a 30-minute set: “Vocal”, “The Sodom and Gomorrah Show”, “It’s a sin”, “Left to my own devices”, “West End girls”, “Domino dancing” and “Always on my mind”. More details about the awards at the links below.
On this day 30 years ago, Pet Shop Boys released their sixth studio album, “Bilingual”. This was taken in 1996 by Andy Earl during a publicity session for “Single-bilingual”.
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