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)[1] 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

*links given are to discogs.com master pages*

Apr. 1984 release - prod.Bobby Orlando
* 7" West End Girls / Pet Shop Boys
* 12": West End Girls (Extended Mix) / Pet Shop Boys
UK rel. date 01 July 1985, UK chart peak -
prod. J.J. Jeczalik/Nicholas Froome
* 7": Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) / In the Night
* 12": Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Dance Mix) / In The Night (Extended)
*shorter than album version*
UK rel. date 28 October 1985, UK chart peak *01*
* 7": West End Girls / A Man Could Get Arrested
* 12": West End Girls (dance mix) / A Man Could Get Arrested / West End Girls
* 10": West End Girls (7:05) / A Man Could Get Arrested *(prod. Bobby Orlando/PSB)*
UK rel. date 24 February 1986, UK chart peak *19*
* 7": Love Comes Quickly / That's My Impression
* 12": Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix) / That's My Impression (Disco Mix)
UK rel. date 19 May 1986, UK chart peak *11*
* 7": Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) / Was That What It Was?
* 12": Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (7:18) + Opportunities (Reprise) (4:27) / Opportunities (Original Dance Mix) (6:45) / Was That What It Was?
UK rel. date 22 September 1986, UK chart peak *08*
prod. Julian Mendelsohn
* 7": Suburbia / Paninaro
* 12": Suburbia (The Full Horror) / Paninaro / Jack the Lad
* Cass.: Suburbia (The Full Horror) / Paninaro / Jack the Lad / Love Comes Quickly (Shep Pettibone Remix)

## External links

* Wikipedia
* Discogs
* Musicbrainz
* Spotify - 10 track original/2001 remaster