Neil and Chris’ Harder Candies

“Yes” – the forthcoming album from the Pet Shop Boys was presented to the press in a pre-listening session in London yesterday, and in the following Q&S Neil Tennant was asked about the Boy’s recent collaborations that did not see the light of day.

To much surprise, Neil revealed that after remixing “Sorry” in 2006, they were contacted again by Warner the following year to write & produce some tracks for the album Madonna was planning at the time, which later became “Hard Candy“.

Sadly, the same week the label changed their mind and according to Neil’s own words
“we got told to forget it as they decided to shove her down the r&b route.”

Neil also mentioned Parlophone asking the Pet Shop Boys to write for Kylie‘s “X”, before deciding to use other producers instead. One of the six tracks written and demoed for Miss Minogue is featured on “Yes“, the Pet Shop Boy’s new album out on March 23rd.

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