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The Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe) are listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful duo in UK music history. Since signing to Parlophone Records in 1985, they have achieved 42 UK Top 30 singles, including 22 Top 10 hits and four number ones. He has released 14 studio albums, all of which have charted in the UK Top 10 as well as album charts around the world, and is currently working on his fifteenth studio album for a Spring 2024 release.
As writers, producers and remixers, Tennant and Lowe have collaborated, remixed or written for a wide range of artists, including Dusty Springfield, Lady Gaga, Liza Minnelli, Blur, Madonna, David Bowie, Yoko Ono, The Killers, Girls Aloud, Have done , Paul Weller. and Noel Gallagher.
In their live shows, Pet Shop Boys have collaborated with directors, designers and artists such as Derek Jarman, David Alden and David Fielding, Zaha Hadid, Sam Taylor-Wood, ES Devlin and Tom Scutt to create an original style of pop musical theatre. ,
PSB has so far performed shows in 63 countries to an audience of millions. They have headlined many of the biggest festivals in the world including Roskilde, Corona Capital Mexico City, Electric Picnic Ireland, Sónar Barcelona, Primavera Barcelona, Madrid and Porto, Latitude UK, Way Out West Sweden, Bestival and Summer Sonic Japan. In the summer of 2019, PSB headlined BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, a performance watched by a record 1.6 million people on television. In 2022 he headlined another leg of the Glastonbury Festival in front of a huge audience. He had earlier hit the headlines in 2010 on the same platform.
Pet Shop Boys’ first greatest hits tour, Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live, began in Milan in May 2022 and subsequently toured across Europe and the UK with great success. The London Evening Standard described their show at London’s O2 Arena as “40 years of spectacular performances”. In September of the same year, PSB co-headlined with British electronic band New Order on their Unity Tour with special guest DJ Paul Oakenfold. Unity saw them perform in 11 cities across North America, including two sold-out nights at the Hollywood Bowl.
In June this year, Pet Shop Boys released ‘Smash – The Singles 1985-2020’, a complete collection of their singles from 35 years of releases. SMASH peaked at number four on the album chart. And in June and July, Neil and Chris toured the UK and Europe for the second cycle of Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live.
Their yet-to-be-titled fifteenth studio album is being produced by James Ford and is scheduled for release in April 2024, which also marks 40 years since the release of the first Pet Shop Boys record.
Tennant and Lowe will be in Peru this December 7th at the multispatio Costa 21 and tickets will be available through the system. Teleticket. (Ra.).