This fabulous Pet Shop Boys’ tale of a noisy neighbour who turned out to be George Michael has today’s funniest payoff

There’s quite a lot of Pet Shops Boys around at the moment and that can only be a good thing, a very good thing, with a new album out this week and a BBC documentary with Alan ‘Botney’ Yentob.

They are also interviewed in the current issue of Record Collector by the great Pete Paphides and this particular tale they had to share has just gone viral for reasons which will become apparent.

Love this Pet Shop Boys story about George Michael at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony, from @petepaphides‘ fantastic @RecCollMag interview. pic.twitter.com/WRTr3zQV8E

— Paul Kirkley (@prkirkley) April 20, 2024

And here it is again, just in case …

Very Pet Shop Boys, very George Michael, and very, very funny.

Class, all round https://t.co/LG4wvenokH

— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) April 20, 2024

What a man. Such a brilliant writer, such a beautiful voice, such a huge loss.

— Subi Shah (@subi_shah) April 20, 2024

This is a great story https://t.co/40Mc7bX5LV

— B e l é n . W i l s ♀️n (@beleno) April 20, 2024

According to Pet Shop Boys at the BBC last night, Being Boring was one of George Michael’s Desert Island Discs.

— Grumpy Who (@grumpywho1) April 20, 2024

genuine lol https://t.co/sxsQ8CGLuc

— Jay Dee (@JayDeeWriting) April 20, 2024

And you can find lots more Record Collector here!

Source @prkirkley