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Pet Shop Boys Versus America

Pet Shop Boys Versus America

by Chris Heath
Hardback
Publication Date: 19/03/2020

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No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith. They visited fourteen cities in one month, confronting the American music industry and colliding with the likes of Liza Minnelli, Steven Spielberg and Axl Rose. This is more than a documentary of a tour; it is an unusually intimate portrait of two maverick British musicians always reluctant to compromise.

'There was a time when the Pet Shop Boys seemed to exist entirely on radio, television and in magazines. This is the other world of the Pet Shop Boys in concert, travel and backstage, as they bring their art and glamour to America. It's funny too.'
Johnny Marr

'A brilliant book, to be read over and over again. How could anyone not love these men?'
NME

ISBN:
9781785152351
9781785152351
Category:
Rock & Pop music
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
19-03-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
205x140x30mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Chris Heath

Chris Heath is a British writer who was a regular contributor to the popular English music magazine Smash Hits in the eighties and early nineties.

In the late eighties, he travelled with Pet Shop Boys on their first ever world tour and the result was the book entitled Literally, released in 1990.

In 1993, he published Pet Shop Boys Versus America which was written as he accompanied them on a US tour. He wrote the liner notes to the 2001 reissues of the band's first six albums, and assisted in the compilation of additional songs for inclusion.

Alongside Pet Shop Boys, he contributed to the commentary track on the 2003 PopArt DVD. He writes and edits the Pet Shop Boys' fan club magazine, also called Literally, and conducts an interview for each of their tour programmes.

He has been a staff writer at Details, Rolling Stone, and most recently, American GQ, for which he has interviewed and written profiles of many celebrities.

He is also the author of the best-selling biography of Robbie Williams, Feel (2004)

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