Interviews - Please I want a Lover
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Neil  We wrote this at Ray Roberts studio one night in 1983. Ray Roberts had a bass guitar, which I played. This is us doing gay disco -the words are completely about going to a club and picking up someone. When we first started writing together Chris was very keen that we should write sleazy songs - it had never occurred to me before. It's about standing at a corner of a nightclub and everyone's leaving and you've seen someone you fancy, and who's going to make the first approach? It Emphasises the transitory nature of it - it was totally a pre-Aids song. It's recorded with Blue Weaver who we'd met when we did the first single version of 'Opportunities'. He played on all the Bee Gees records and he was in Amen Corner. He's a great keyboard player and programmer.

Chris Blue Weaver always understood disco.

Neil  He lived in Miami. He played at the White House with the Bee Gees for President Carter- how much more disco than that can you get? There's real guitar on it, played by a friend of Blue Weaver's. There was more guitar originally- it sounded like 'Fame' in the middle- but we edited it out. There's another car crash on this - a different car crash - and there is a sample of Chris playing the trombone. Chris brought his trombone into the studio. He wasn't very keen on doing it.

Chris Blue Weaver insisted. I learned the trombone when I was about ten. My grandfather played the trombone.

Neil  It's got my favourite line: 'driving through the night, it's so exciting', followed by a car crash.

Chris Was that the first song with a bass dam on the fours?

Neil  Yes, it probably was, and that's now what you'd think of as really Pet Shop Boys.

Chris It's all about turning off the lights and it all getting a bit steamy. Our records aren't sexy enough now. It's all bloody politics and the intensifies of Russian history. No one wants to hear about that, do they?

 
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