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Reliving the best moments of 2001's most innovative West End musical, the Closer To Heaven soundtrack is a strange but unique mix of old and new. Jointly written by the Pet Shop Boys and Beautiful Thing writer Jonathan Harvey, the tale is set in a nightclub and follows the romantic flings and brushes with fame of club barman Dave. Peppered with familiar but rejigged PSB B-sides ("Shameless" and "Hedonism") and album tracks ("In Denial", "Vampires" and "Closer to Heaven", all taken from 1999's Nightlife), the soundtrack also contains some newer sounds. Performance favourite "
Reliving the best moments of 2001's most innovative West End musical, the Closer To Heaven soundtrack is a strange but unique mix of old and new. Jointly written by the Pet Shop Boys and Beautiful Thing writer Jonathan Harvey, the tale is set in a nightclub and follows the romantic flings and brushes with fame of club barman Dave. Peppered with familiar but rejigged PSB B-sides ("Shameless" and "Hedonism") and album tracks ("In Denial", "Vampires" and "Closer to Heaven", all taken from 1999's Nightlife), the soundtrack also contains some newer sounds. Performance favourite "Call Me Old-Fashioned" sung by band manager Bob Saunders (Paul Broughton) is a classic Pet Shop Boys Euro-beat anthem. "Positive Role Model" is another much-loved track which closes the soundtrack and incorporates samples of Barry White's "You're the first..." in a dance floor melée. While the musical and lyrical compositions typically complement Jonathan Harvey's stage play, the performance of some of the group's more familiar songs by others is rather disconcerting; the replacement of Tennant's familiar dead-pan presentation, by the cast's occasional music hall exuberance and theatrical hamminess is at times challenging. Overall though this is a collection which will surprise and delight fans of the Pet Shop Boys, and provide relief for those who didn't (or did) manage to see Closer to Heaven. --John Galilee
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Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 8 October 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099750451625
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