West End Girls / A Man Could Get Arrested

Originally produced as a darker club track by Bobby Orlando in 1984, the duo famously re-recorded 'West End Girls' with producer Stephen Hague to achieve its lush, atmospheric synthpop sheen. Neil Tennant's deadpan, spoken-word vocal delivery drew dual inspiration from the cadence of early hip-hop and the bleak, urban poetry of T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'. It became a massive, era-defining transatlantic number-one hit.