The Pet Shop Boys have said that their single ‘Feel’ was originally offered to The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers for a solo record.
The duo Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant revealed this while speaking to Record Collector, where they stated that Flowers was originally offered this track for a solo album.
Lowe and Tennant have also recently shared the second track from their latest album, ‘Nonetheless’.
“We sent it to him when he was making his solo album with Stuart Price, but we don’t know if it reached him – and then, during lockdown, I read a book about the spy, George Blake, escaping from prison”, they revealed.
“For some reason, it inspired me to return to this, so now it’s about visiting a loved one in prison”.
Back in 2010, Flowers also teamed up with Stuart Price on his debut solo LP, ‘Flamingo’, while Price also worked as engineer for the singer’s track ‘The Way It’s Always Been’ from his album ‘The Desire Effect’ which arrived in 2015.
Pet Shop Boys On Offering A Song To Bananarama
Elsewhere, The Pet Shop Boys also revealed that they offered a track to Banaanrama.
“They were always going to be difficult, were’t they?”, Chris Lowe said.
With Tennant adding: “They asked us many times to write a song. And Sarah [Dallin] said, ‘You’ve just picked something off the shelf, haven’t you, and given it to us?’ She just knew. She’s clever”.
Last week, The Pet Shop Boys also spoke about claims that their track ‘It’s A Sin’ showed similarities with Olly Alexander’s Eurovision entry, ‘Dizzy’.
