PSB release New London Boy / All The Young Dudes single

Pet Shop Boys have released a new double A-side single featuring New London Boy / All The Young Dudes.

The single is available now as two digital bundles and from 15 November as two CD singles.

The first five-track format includes a new radio edit of New London Boy and a cover version of the David Bowie-penned All The Young Dudes produced by James Ford with orchestral arrangements by Anne Dudley. Pet Shop Boys originally performed this song in February in BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room.

Bonus Tracks

The lyrics of New London Boy are about Neil moving to London in 1972 at the height of the glam rock era when All The Young Dudes was a hit – linking the two songs thematically. The bundle also includes a different ‘Delinquent’ version of All The Young Dudes produced by Pet Shop Boys and an extended remix by Richard X, plus a previously unreleased song, Beauty Has Laid Siege To The City, which was written and recorded in 2020 and uses a quotation from the 19th century illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley, as the title.

The second four-track format features a Richard X edit and I. JORDAN remix of  All The Young Dudes, a Boy Harsher remix of New London Boy and the song Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus, which was originally written and recorded in 2015 and included as a bonus track on the Japanese deluxe edition of the Nonetheless CD.

The cover art for the first format/CD1 features a photo of Neil taken that year when he first moved to London, while the second format/CD2 cover is a picture of Chris shot in 1981, the year he arrived in the city.

Full Tracklisting

CD1
New London boy (radio edit)
All The Young Dudes
Beauty Has Laid Siege To The City
All The Young Dudes (Delinquent mix)
All The Young Dudes (Richard X longest mix)
CD2
All The Young Dudes (Richard X edit)
New London Boy (Boy Harsher remix)
Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus
All The Young Dudes (I. JORDAN remix)

Last week the duo announced that they will release a special PSB-themed tea set. The products are the first to be launched as part of the new Pet Shop Boys Since 1984 range to commemorate 40 years since the release of the duo’s debut single – the original version of West End Girls. The limited-edition collection – designed by long-term collaborators Farrow with Tennant and Lowe and manufactured by Duchess China – features a tea pot, cups and saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl.

The digital bundles are available now, click here. The CD singles will be released on Friday 15 November and are available to pre-order here. A special expanded edition of Nonetheless will be released on 22 November featuring the full record, four new bonus songs and the original demo versions of all the tracks on the album. Click here.

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