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Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe famously met in a hi-fi shop in Chelsea in 1981 and decided to work together after discovering a mutual interest in dance music. Neil Tennant, who had previously played in a band called Dust, was then a journalist for pop magazine Smash Hits, while Chris Lowe had been studying architecture at the University of Liverpool. They first called themselves West End, but became Pet Shop Boys after meeting New York dance music guru Bobby Orlando, who produced their first single, “West End Girls”. Initially, it flopped, but a re-recording produced by Stephen Hag...