There are two most interesting events in every music group's history: the meeting for the first time and the publishing of the first song. The meeting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe was just a mere chance, which is still amazing for the fans. Full of misty memories, the legend says that Chris was laughing gaily looking at the shelves in a music store in Kings Road, and he attracted Neil's attention, who came to this very shop looking for some connectors for his synthesizer. It's a mystery how Neil managed to start talking and to make friends with Chris and how they didn't part and lose each other in the vast city.
  However, since then Chris and Neil had begun to write songs, sending them by mail. At that time Chris was studying in an architecture college in Liverpool, and Neil was working in the famous "Smash Hits" magazine in London. Once Neil got a chance to go to the United States - on a business trip - to make an interview with Sting. In New York City he met Bobby Orlando, who helped the boys to produce the "West End Girls" single. The single became a club hit and didn't draw the attention of the public, but since then the boys were able to hope for something. In 1985 remixed "West End Girls" single was published in Great Britain under the famous EMI company label. As it immediately reached the top of the hit-lists all over the world, it started their great success. The debut "Please" album was published in 1986 and since then the popularity of the Pet Shop Boys has been growing all the time.
 From the very beginning the duet didn't go under the definition of traditional pop-music and with time even most cynical and skeptical journalists stopped treating their work with irony, as they did with others. The Pet Shop Boys have never followed the fashion, they have always been one step forward or sometimes they made a step aside to let the trivial go.