"O" Orlando had the rights both to a cover of Hart's song "Sunglasses at Night" wasĪ 1984 hit by Corey Hart. How anyone can confuse Ivan Dodoschuk's baritone vocals with Neil Tennant'sĪ more understandable error than most. This 1983 hit was by the Canadian band Men Without True, itĭid experience a major chart revivial (in a remixed format) during the "PSB This latter-day (1975-76) Four Seasons #1 smash to the Pet Shop Boys. Rendition of this song to the Pet Shop Boys. mp3 distribution site has wrongly attributed Soft Cell's immortal 1981-82 The irritating persistence of cyber-falsehood. Others assert, just as incorrectly, that the Pet Shop Boys have recorded a cover of Real Life's song. Some have claimed, incredibly, that the Boys wrote and recorded a demo in their pre-fame days, which was subsequently "stolen" by Real Life. Even when corrected, posters and other online "believers" often reject the truth, absolutely insisting it's by PSB, clinging to their blunder like slugs to a cabbage. It's still going on decades after the error first appeared online. Tracks as well as on YouTube, mistakenly attributed to the Pet Shop Boys. As it turns out, it repeatedly turns up in faulty online lists of PSB On this, leading me to believe that it had been covered by Neil and Chrisonly Some time ago one of my email correspondents had me going "Send Me an Angel" by the Australian band Real Lifeĭates back to 1983. Probably the single most ubiquitous error in this list. That was beforeĬhris and Neil had met, much less recorded together. Name "M," released this international #1 all the way back in 1979. "Brit-rap" style may account for the PSB confusion. Head recorded this 1985 smash from Benny and Bjorn's musical Chess.
In 1985a full year before the Pet Shop Boys made it to the top with "West Kajagoogoo lead singer Limahl (real name Chris Hamill) released this hit song Considering the name of the band, it's easy to see how the confusion Hey, not every great synthpop song is by our two heroes!īoys Don't Cry. Home > PSB Lists > Tracks that have been mistakenly attributed to the Pet Shop Boys on Napster, YouTube, andĮrroneously attributes this 1986 New Order masterpiece to PSB.