The 2020 edition of Pet Shop Boys Annually will be published on April 17th and is available to pre-order now from the link below. This year’s 64-page, hard-backed book includes:
* The making of PSB’s newly released album “Hotspot”.
* A behind-the-scenes report with photos from the “Monkey business” video shoot.
* A year of theatre: “Closer to Heaven”, “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “Musik”, the Billie Trix one-woman cabaret, all open in the same year to excellent reviews.
* Plus news and photographs, your letters answered, and more.
* A 7‑track CD of PSB’s music for “My Beautiful Laundrette”, the recent stage play based on the film, is packaged with this issue of Annually and is not available anywhere else. Pre-order your copy of Pet Shop Boys Annually with the “My Beautiful Laundrette” CD exclusively from the official store at the link below. The full track-listing of the “My Beautiful Laundrette” CD is as follows:
1. Omar’s theme
2. Angelic thug
3. Johnny’s dark side
4. Night sings (Popa’s theme)
5. Johnny’s theme
6. Beautiful laundrette
7. No boundaries
Annually
Pet Shop Boys’ classic “Suburbia” was released on this day 40 years ago. The music video was directed by Eric Watson and filmed in the suburbs of San Bernardino and Duarte in Los Angeles and in Kingston-upon-Thames in Greater London.
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