Pet Shop Boys West End Girls (1986) Top Pop

West End Girls is a song by the English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song s lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of innercity life which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot s poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo s career. The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records Bobcat Records imprint in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was rerecorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please. In October 1985, the new version was released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986. In 1987, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards, and Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello A br, br,