Pet Shop Boys release their new double A-side single, ‘New London boy’ / ‘All the young dudes’, today, November 7. The single is available now as two digital bundles and from November 15 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’. 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 digital bundles are available now. The CD singles will be released on Friday November 15 and are available to pre-order now. 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.
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