Please

Please is the title of the debut album by British duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 24 March 1986 on Parlaphone. The one-word title was given, "..so people can go into the record shop and say ‘can I have the Pet Shop Boys album, please?’.”

The album entered the UK charts at no.3 the week after its release and for one more week after (held off the top by Hits 4 and Brothers In Arms) and stayed in the Top 40 for a total of twenty-six weeks.

All songs were written by group members Tennant & Lowe except Two Divided by Zero written by Tennant and Bobby Orlando and Love Comes Quickly written by Tennant/Lowe & Stephen Hague, who also produced the album.

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) was the choice of lead single in July 1985 (after an early version of West End Girls in 1984), although failed to become a hit. It was later released again as a third single out of a total of four, including the number one West End Girls. The final choice, Suburbia, was a re-recording of the album track, produced by Julian Mendelsohn. (see Singles section below)

Please was re-released on04 June 2001 as Please/Further Listening 1984–1986 and again in the same form on 02 March 2018.

Personnel

 * Neil Tennant - lead vocals, backing vocals


 * Chris Lowe - synthesizers, programming, sequencers, samplers, computer-generated effects, electric piano and backing vocals

Tracklisting
original UK LP PCS 7303, PSB1


 * Side One


 * 1) Two Divided By Zero
 * 2) West End Girls
 * 3) Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
 * 4) Love Comes Quickly
 * 5) Suburbia


 * Side Two


 * 1) Opportunities (reprise) (not listed on LP/MC)
 * 2) Tonight Is Forever
 * 3) Violence
 * 4) I Want a Lover
 * 5) Later Tonight
 * 6) Why Don't We Live Together?

Singles
UK only

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