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PleaseThe Pet Shop Boys released their first album, Please, in 1986. Neil has said that they chose that title because they got a kick out of imagining thousands of teenagers "forced to be polite" by asking record-store clerks for "the Pet Shop Boys album, Please." A worldwide bestseller, its high-quality, fully developed display of songwriting skills—not generally recognized at the time—seems all the more amazing for a debut album coming "out of the blue," as it were.
The album cover's design, with its tiny photo of Chris and Neil and even smaller typeface, arose from designer Mark Farrow's observation that the smaller he made the image and type, the more eye-catching they became—which is exactly the opposite one would expect. In the years since its release, that design has come to be recognized as a classic unto itself.
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