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 a speaker", adding that "he mumbles the verses to us not like a star, but like a stranger in a raincoat, slinking alongside you and pointing out the sights". In 1987, "West End Girls" won for Best Single at The BRIT Awards, and for Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2005, the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters gave to "West End Girls" the Ivor Novello Award for Song of The Decade between the years 1985 and 1994. The video was directed by Andy Morahan and Eric Watson, and consists of shots of the duo around London.