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Pet Shop Boys Volume
The complete visual record
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Marking the fortieth anniversary of Please, the duo's first album release, Pet Shop Boys Volume presents their entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format. Pet Shop Boys - Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe - are the most successful duo in the history of...
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Marking the fortieth anniversary of Please, the duo's first album release, Pet Shop Boys Volume presents their entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format.
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Marking the fortieth anniversary of Please, the duo's first album release, Pet Shop Boys Volume presents their entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format.
Pet Shop Boys - Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe - are the most successful duo in the history of pop music. Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, they have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, including No. 1 hits such as 'West End girls', 'It's a sin', and 'Always on my mind', and platinum-selling albums Please, Actually, and Very.
Uniquely spanning the worlds of music, art, film, theatre, design, and fashion, Pet Shop Boys have forged an identity as unforgettable as their sound. From the seminal graphic design of their record sleeves to their groundbreaking videos and innovative stage shows, they have set the bar for the visual presentation of pop.
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the release of their first album in 1986, Pet Shop Boys Volume is the definitive retrospective of the duo's career. Expanding upon Pet Shop Boys Catalogue, published two decades ago, it presents their entire visual output to date, year by year. Sleeve artworks and packaging, stills from every video, film, and performance, stage sets and costume designs, photoshoots, publications, and even Christmas cards all feature, as does every collaboration with luminaries including Mark Farrow, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr, Bruce Weber, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Derek Jarman, Scott King, Zaha Hadid, Tom Scutt, and Es Devlin.
Concise commentaries by Chris Heath and Philip Hoare provide illuminating insights into the genesis of each project. Hoare's original introduction is accompanied by a new introduction from Libby Sellers who considers the importance of Pet Shop Boys within the history of design, while a new foreword by Jeremy Deller reflects on the enduring impact of their music and image.
With a jacket designed by Farrow and a new conversation between Heath, Tennant, and Lowe, Pet Shop Boys Volume is a visual feast and a sumptuous tribute to four decades of creative innovation.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780500027479
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: 2857 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 592
About the Author
Chris Heath is the author of the recently re-released books Pet Shop Boys, Literally and Pet Shop Boys versus America, two best-selling biographies of Robbie Williams, and No Road Leaading Back: An Improbably Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust. He currently writes for The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, New York, and the Smithsonian magazine.
Philip Hoare is a writer, artist, and curator. His books include acclaimed biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noel Coward, Leviathan or, The Whale - winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize - and William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love.
Libby Sellers is a design historian, curator, and writer. Formerly a curator at the Design Museum in London, she ran her eponymous design gallery for a decade. In 2014, she was awarded Woman of Achievement in the Arts by the Women of the Year awards.
Jeremy Deller is a Turner Prize-winning conceptual, video, and installation artist. He is also the author of Art is Magic.
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