Please
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| Studio album by Pet Shop Boys | ||||
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Publication |
March 24, 1986 |
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admission |
1984-1985 |
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| Label (s) | Parlophone | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, record |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
44:02 |
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Bobby Orlando, Stephen Hague |
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Please ( German : "Please") is the Pet Shop Boys ' debut album , which was released in March 1986. The most successful single releases are West End Girls and Suburbia . The name was chosen for the play on words “Can I get the Pet Shop Boys album, 'Please'?” (“Can I get the Pet Shop Boys album, 'Please'?”).
history
The album was sold over three million times. As with other Pet Shop Boys albums, it also contains androgynous texts about homosexual and heterosexual relationships. The album was re-released in June 2001 under the title Please / Further Listening 1984-1986 . Another rerelease followed in February 2009 as Please: Remastered .
Neil Tennant denied in a report on the BBC that rumors were used for the bonus track Two Divided by Zero Samples from a handheld device called Speak & Spel from Texas Instruments ; According to him, the samples come from a pocket calculator with voice output.
In 1989 Liza Minnelli covered the bonus track Tonight is Forever for her album Result, produced by the Pet Shop Boys .
Track list
- Two Divided by Zero - 3:32
- West End Girls - 4:41
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - 3:43
- Love Comes Quickly - 4:18
- Suburbia - 5:07
- Opportunities (recap) - 0:32
- Tonight Is Forever - 4:30
- Violence - 4:27
- I Want a Lover - 4:04
- Later Tonight - 2:44
- Why Don't We Live Together? - 4:44
Contributors
- Neil Tennant - vocals
- Chris Lowe - synthesizer
- Andy Mackay - saxophone
- Helena Springs - backing vocals
- Ron Dean Miller - coproduction and guitar
- Blue Weaver - co-production
- JJ Jeczalik - co-production
- Nicholas Froome - co-production
Charts
album
| year | title | Chart positions | ||||
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| DE | AT | CH | UK | US | ||
| 1986 | Please | 38 | - | 20th | 3 | 7th |
Singles
| year | title | Chart positions | ||||
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| DE | AT | CH | UK | US | ||
| 1984 | West End Girls | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 1985 | Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) | 25th | - | - | 11 | 10 |
| 1986 | Love Comes Quickly | 17th | 24 | - | 19th | 62 |
| 1986 | Suburbia | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8th | 70 |
- The chart positions of the songs West End Girls and Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) are from the re-releases, but they are not listed.