Pet Shop Boys, literalmente

1989. The Pet Shop Boys -the graceful and charismatic Neil Tennant (vocals) and the elusive Chris Lowe (keyboards)- perhaps the most brilliant British pop duo of the 1980s, who to date had released timeless hits such as "West End. Girls","Opportunities","It's a Sin","Left to My Own Devices" or "Domino Dancing" and four albums that had swept the charts, they finally decided to undertake what would be their first international tour . Until then, their obsession with controlling every detail of their musical production, a certain stage fright and the ambitious staging that they thought their performances in front of the public should have had frustrated any attempt to offer a live show. Finally, in the summer of 1989, the duo agreed to give a series of lavish concerts that would take them to Hong Kong and Japan, plus a few dates back in the United Kingdom. Along this journey, they would be accompanied -in addition to the troupe of dancers and supporting musicians, their management team and photographer Lawrence Watson- by journalist Chris Heath, who was entrusted with the arduous task of writing a book about the experience and, by extension , compose a portrait of the PSB. The result was Pet Shop Boys, literally, originally published in 1990 and recently reissued and expanded, a classic of musical literature that shows us with humor and without filters the lives of these two pop geniuses. In addition to the adventures that occurred during the tour, Heath reveals to us the singular personality -sometimes haughty, sometimes prosaic- of Tennant / Lowe and that of his peculiar entourage of companions to compose an unforgettable fresco of the heyday of one of the most popular bands. influencers of all time.