Let's do a little flashback in the time and let's report us in 1991, in the month of February to be precise. I was a 14 year old girl who had enough of the life she had. First of all i was in a new high school and i didn't enjoyed it at all. Apart of that in late 1990 my dad went sick and he had a leg cut. He was in a rehabilitation center for a year after that and i didn't seen him at all during this period. My mother who never worked before started to work because we had financial problems. Anyway i was a very sad and lonely girl. I just finished my exhuberant 'New kids on the block' period. I was a big fan of them in the 80's-early 90's but in 1991, i started to be really fed up with them. It was fun because all my friends liked New kids on the block and it was fun to share things. I know it's crappy music but i was like 11-12 years old and i didn't want to be apart in my friends. It was like this: we all liked Def Leppard in 6th grade and then NKOTB in the 7th grade, beginning of the 8th. Well anyway one weekend while i listened Musique Plus (MTV in Quebec) i saw this magnificiant video with two georgous guys and a really dancy tune with a superb beat. It was 'So hard'. After the video one of the Musique Plus the VJ who presented the video says that the Pet Shop Boys was his favorite music for the moment and that their album 'Behaviour' was incredebly good. This guy work there since a decade and i like his style. He is not afraid to say when something is crap and i really admire people who are not afraid of what they thinks. So it stays like this on my head but during that week i saw this video like 5 times and it really started to went into my brain. The next weekend i watched a TV program while people asked for video requests and one of them asked the video 'Heart'. That's at this moment that i started to like the PSB for the first time !!! So the next day i recorded the repraise of the video and still and still looked at it during that day. After that i bought the 'How can you expect to be taken seriously ?' cassette single with 'What have I done to deserve this ?' on the B side. I loved the side A but the side B was better and i saw that i ever heard that song somewhere but i didn't remember when. After that i bought the albums and i known tons of songs but never knows that it was the PSB who sang them like : 'West End Girls', 'It couldn't happen here', 'It's a sin', 'Domino Dancing' and 'Always on my mind'. It's weird because in elementary school, i sometimes had the 'Always on my mind' beat in my head but never known who sangs it. When i first listened the PSB, i didn't speak or understand any words in english apart the easiest ones. But i didn't care because i first hooked on the beat. After that i put some videos that i took from TV to one of my friend at that time. She liked it either. So both of us where amazed by the PSB. She ever bought a few PSB tapes because of me. It's because of the PSB if i started listening artist like Depeche Mode and New Order.
Later when i knew a little bit more about the contents of their lyrics and about Neil and Chris, it just makes me like them more and more. Suddenly i had something interesting who comes in my life and even my best friend liked them. I wanted to see the Performance show in 1991 but my dad didn't wanted me to go alone so i didn't go but now, i regret it very much. I can say that the PSB helps me to live the worst periods of my life. Every time i am down or where my life goes not well the best medication is to listen them. It helps me to relax and thinks better. When i finished high school in 1994 i wanted to study in journalism but my results were not good enough. My dad went sicker and had kidney problems after that and he died in 1996. I can say i lost my dad in 1991 because he was so sick that i didn't reconized the one i had when i was little. I think i first like the PSB because i saw in Neil the father figure that i would like to have at that time of my life. I subscribed to the club in 1994 and i still do. I had a couple of Petpals from their fanzine 'Literally'. I even meet somebody in Quebec city who liked them as much as i do. I live in Montreal, at about 3 hours by car from Quebec city. When i started using internet in 1995, i used it on what you can call 'Internet cafes' I loved that because it always had good new stuff to know about the PSB. I went to these place like two times per months and i was always anxious to go. In 1998 i got my second computer but the first one with internet. Since that day, i make some good friends from all around the world who likes the same artist than me. I felt so alone and then suddenly i realised that i was not alone !!! I met a friend from UK in 1998 and we discover that we had so much things in common, including the Pet Shop Boys. It finished that we became girlfriend/boyfriend. I went to see him two times in UK in 1998-1999 but we broke about one year ago. I dreamt to going to England since i started liking the PSB in 1991 and 7 years later my dream finally came true. I finally had the chance to see them live after a long wait of 8 years. It was one of the greatest moments of my life. I won't never forget the amazing week i passed in November 1999. I even make one another friend a fan of the PSB. She even went to one show with me and really likes it so since October 1999 she is a PSB fan. Well she is lucky because she can have all infos she needs and all things she wants about them because of me. I had a couple of periods like in 1992-1993 when i began to be hooked on other artist but i always come back to my first love. Thank you Neil and Chris for making very good music and for making people's life much easier to live!
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