West End Girls and "original 7" version" do not appear on any releases. They are names created by fans in order to distinguish the different versions. In 1993 East 17 covered "West End Girls" for their album "Walthamstow", with limited chart success. 7" West End Girls "West End Girls" is a song by the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song is influenced by hip hop music, with lyrics concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem
West End Girls 1985, topping the charts in both the UK and the US. In an interview on BBC4's "Synth Britannia" programme ( at 1h 21m 19s), Neil Tennant explains the role of the then new sampling technology on the track and how every single sound came from the newly introduced E-mu Emulator keyboard. "West End Girls" is a synthpop song influenced by hip hop music. The song's socially conscious streak, as well as the propulsive bass line, derives from Grandmaster Flash's protest rap song "The Message". Lowe and Hague created a "snaky, obsessive rhythm punch" for the music, replacing the song's previously