History Trivia / PetShopBoys

* ReferencedBy: Pet Shop, DIO's [[FeatheredFiend pet falcon]] and one of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', gets his name from the titular band.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: EMI tried to convince Lowe and Tennant to replace Music/DustySpringfield on "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" with a more successful of-the-moment vocalist like Music/BarbraStreisand or Music/TinaTurner. Luckily, the Boys stood their ground, Springfield got her first top-10 hit in nineteen years, and her career was greatly revitalized afterwards.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: EMI tried to convince Lowe and Tennant to replace Music/DustySpringfield on "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" with a more successful of-the-moment vocalist like Music/BarbraStreisand or Music/TinaTurner. Luckily, the Boys stood their ground, and Springfield's career was greatly revitalized afterwards.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: EMI tried to convince Lowe and Tennant to replace Music/DustySpringfield on "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" with a more successful of-the-moment vocalist like Music/BarbaraStreisand or Music/TinaTurner. Luckily, the Boys stood their ground, and Springfield's career was greatly revitalized afterwards.

* ExecutiveMeddling: "London" was only released as a single in Germany because EMI was wary about releasing a PSB song with the lyrics "Let's break the law!". And in "Casanova in Hell", the line "His ageing fate/To contemplate" once had [[ADateWithRosiePalms another rhyme there]]. They never released "The Sodom and Gomorrah show" as a single as intended, because the song mentioned the word "Sodom", and the EMI feared it wouldn't be played on the radios.

* CreatorBacklash: Neil hates "Was that what it was", as he stated once. And Chris dislikes "Hit and miss". [[http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/lists/dislike.htm A handful of examples of this]], in fact.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: A surprising number of people believe that the band got its name from the practice of inserting hamsters and gerbils into bodily cavities. The truth is more prosaic; they simply knew some people who worked at a pet shop. Too many people think they both were lovers or a couple once in the past, but they have denied it several times -- just friends and flatmates in London before they started the PSB, and since then workmates and friends.

* ReferencedBy: Pet Shop, DIO's [[FeatheredFiend pet falcon]] and one of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', gets his name from the titular band.

* {{Mondegreen}}: YMMV aside, a few are present in prominent official or semi-official places:
** Tthe lyrics booklet with the Japanese release of ''Alternative'' makes a few (e.g. "I'm virgin, I'm ugly" rather than "verging on ugly").
** PSB admit that they weren't sure what the "Go west" line rendered in their version as "the hustling, rustling just to feed" was actually supposed to be ("the hustling, rustling of the feet," apparently). It isn't nearly as bad as the demo, which renders the previous line ("Without rush, and the pace back east") as "We'll outrun all the power degrees" - it would seem that they did some more deciphering after recording the demo.

* PromotedFanboy: Stuart Price, the producer for ''Electric'', ''Super'' and ''Hotspot'' was a big fan before working with PSB. He even cited them as his inspiration for getting into the music industry.

* PromotedFanboy: Stuart Price, the producer for ''Electric'' and ''Super'', was a big fan before working with PSB. He even cited them as his inspiration for getting into the music industry.

* OneOfUs:
** In his days as an editor, Neil worked at the UK branch of Creator/MarvelComics, and is a professed fan of Franchise/ActionMan and ComicBook/CaptainBritain.
** They're both big ''Series/DoctorWho'' nerds, but that's not too uncommon considering its popularity. Chris did say that Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog music inspired "Young Offender" and can be seen playing an arcade game in the "So Hard" video. Neil is a big fan of WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.
*** In turn, Creator/DavidTennant, who played the Tenth Doctor, is a Pet Shop Boys fan. His real name is David [=MacDonald=], but since the Actors' Guild [[OneSteveLimit already had]] a David [=MacDonald=], he took his stage name from Neil Tennant.

** In his days as an editor, Neil worked at the UK branch of Creator/MarvelComics, and is a professed fan of WesternAnimation/ActionMan and ComicBook/CaptainBritain.

* PromotedFanboy: Stuart Price, the group's most recent producer, was a big fan before working with PSB. He even cited them as his inspiration for getting into the music industry.

** Apparantly, the lyrics booklet with the Japanese release of ''Alternative'' makes a few (e.g. "I'm virgin, I'm ugly" rather than "verging on ugly").
** PSB admit that they weren't sure what the "Go west" line rendered in their version as "the hustling, rustling just to feed" was actually supposed to be (it's apparantly supposed to be "the hustling, rustling of the feet"). It isn't nearly as bad as the demo, which renders the previous line ("Without rush, and the pace back east") as "We'll outrun all the power degrees" - it would seem that they did some more deciphering after recording the demo.

* PromotedFanboy: Stuart Price, the producer for ''Electric'', was a big fan before working with PSB. He even cited them as his inspiration for getting into the music industry.

** In his days as an editor, Neil worked at the UK branch of Marvel Comics, and is a professed fan of Action Man and Captain Britain.
** They're both big ''Series/DoctorWho'' nerds, but that's not too uncommon considering its popularity. Chris did say that SonicTheHedgehog music inspired "Young Offender" and can be seen playing an arcade game in the "So Hard" video. Neil is a big fan of the Simpsons.
*** In turn, Creator/DavidTennant, who played the Tenth Doctor, is a Pet Shop Boys fan. His real name is David [=MacDonald=], but since the actors guild [[OneSteveLimit already had]] a David [=MacDonald=], he took his stage name from Neil Tennant.

* BannedInChina: "Legacy" almost got ''Yes'' banned in China, with the lyric about governments falling. They agreed to release the song as an instrumental.

* ExecutiveMeddling: "London" was only released as a single in Germany because EMI was wary about releasing a PSB song with the lyrics "Let's break the law!". And in "Casanova in Hell", the line "His ageing fate/To contemplate" once had [[ADateWithRosiePalms another rhyme there]]. They didn't eventually release "The Sodom and Gomorrah show" as a single because the song mentioned the word "Sodom" and the EMI feared it wouldn't be played on the radios.

* OneOfUs: In his days as an editor, Neil worked at the UK branch of Marvel Comics, and is a professed fan of Action Man and Captain Britain.

* CreatorBacklash: Neil hates "Was that what it was", as he stated once. And Chris dislikes "Hit and miss". [http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/lists/dislike.htm A handful of examples of this], in fact.

* CreatorBacklash: Neil hates "Was that what it was", as he stated once. And Chris dislikes "Hit and miss".

** Their performance at Glastonbury 2010. Wow.

*** In turn, Creator/DavidTennant, who played the Tenth Doctor, is a Pet Shop Boys fan. His real name is David [=MacDonald=], but since the actors guild [OneSteveLimit already had] a David [=MacDonald=], he took his stage name from Neil Tennant.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''It Couldn't Happen Here'', though they said in an interview they might put it on DVD. Their first four singles (from the ''Please'' album), which were only released on vynil, although some of the songs of them were re-released in compilation albums such as ''Alternative'' and the ''Further listening'' album for ''Please''.

*** In turn, Creator/DavidTennant, who played the Tenth Doctor, is a Pet Shop Boys fan. His real name is David [=MacDonald=], but since the actors guild [OneSteveLimit already had] a David [=MacDonald=], he took his stage name from Neil Tennant.

* CreatorRecovery: The album ''Very'' was more upbeat and exuberant than their prior albums, owing to singer/lyricist Neil Tennant being in love at the time. It is sometimes referred to as their "coming-out" album, as Tennant had begun openly discussing his homosexuality for the first time during this period.