Pet Shop Boys today release their brand new double A-side single, ‘New London boy’ / ‘All the young dudes’.
The single is available now as two digital bundles and from November 15 as two CD singles. The first five-track format includes a new radio edit of ‘New London boy’ and a cover version of the David Bowie-penned ‘All the young dudes’ produced by James Ford with orchestral arrangements by Anne Dudley. Pet Shop Boys originally performed this song in February in BBC Radio 2’s ‘Piano Room’. The lyrics of ‘New London boy’ are about Neil moving to London in 1972 at the height of the glam rock era when ‘All the young dudes’ was a hit – linking the two songs thematically.
The bundle also includes a different ‘Delinquent’ version of ‘All the young dudes’ produced by Pet Shop Boys and an extended remix by Richard X, plus a previously unreleased song, ‘Beauty has laid siege to the city’, which was written and recorded in 2020 and uses a quotation from the 19th century illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley, as the title.
Listen to ‘New London boy’ on North London Forever.
The second four-track format features a Richard X edit and I. JORDAN remix of ‘All the young dudes’, a Boy Harsher remix of ‘New London boy’ and the song ‘Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus’, which was originally written and recorded in 2015 and included as a bonus track on the Japanese deluxe edition of the Nonetheless CD.
Pet Shop Boys released their fifteenth album, Nonetheless, produced by James Ford, on Parlophone Records in April. The record includes the singles ‘Loneliness’, ‘Dancing star’, ‘A new bohemia’ and ‘Feel’ and reached #2 in the UK album chart in its first week of release – their highest-charting studio album since 1993. A special expanded edition of the album will be released on November 22 featuring the full record, four new bonus songs and the original demo versions of all the tracks on the album.
In July Pet Shop Boys concluded the latest UK and European dates of their ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’ tour with a sold-out residency at London’s Royal Opera House which received five-star press reviews, and in September they headlined the Sunday night at this year’s BBC Radio 2 in the Park in Preston.
This Sunday they will perform at the MTV EMAs in Manchester at the Co-op Live arena and from November 11-14, 11pm-12am, Pet Shop Boys will present shows for BBC Radio 6 Music’s Artist in Residence.
