Pet Shop Boys

BBC Radio 2 Piano Room • Season 2024 • Episode 20

About this episode

Pet Shop Boys perform live at Maida Vale with the BBC Concert Orchestra as they bring the curtain down on Radio 2's Piano Room Month in style. 2024 marks 40 years since Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe released their first version of West End Girls, the song that would eventually propel them to stardom and become the first in a very long line of hits. Still hugely successful and ever creative, they're about to release Nonetheless, their 15th studio album, before going on to tour the UK and Europe throughout June and July, ending with a five-night run at London's Royal Opera House. Their Piano Room set features their 1988 hit Left To My Own Devices, and Loneliness, the opening track from Nonetheless, alongside All The Young Dudes, Mott The Hoople's 1972 classic, written by David Bowie.