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 (Houston) The West End Park vicinity originally had an array of 1920s shotgun-style bungalows. The driveways there were paved with crushed seashells. The entire West End area had mainly European American working class people, although the area surrounding West End Park had mainly African Americans and a few Mexican Americans in the late 1970s. By the mid 1980s the crack epidemic ravaged the African American area particularly around Patterson St. and Eli St. The crack houses in the area were well known throughout the city, and rivaled those of the 5th Ward. Latino Americans started moving into the area by the