Pet Shop Boys’ song ‘Feel’ was offered to Brandon Flowers for solo record

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Pet Shop Boys have revealed that their track ‘Feel’ was originally offered to The Killers‘ frontman Brandon Flowers.While speaking to Record Collector in an interview, duo Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant shared that the second track from their latest release ‘Nonetheless‘ was offered to Flowers while he was working on his solo album.“We sent it to him when he was making his solo album with Stuart Price, but we don’t know if it reached him – and then, during lockdown, I read a book about the spy, George Blake, escaping from prison,” he said. “For some reason, it inspired me to return to this, so now it’s about visiting a loved one in prison.”The Killers frontman teamed up with Price back in 2010 for his debut solo LP ‘Flamingo’.

Price also served as an engineer for song ‘The Way It’s Always Been’ on his 2015 album ‘The Desire Effect’.Elsewhere in the interview, the Pet Shop Boys also shared another time in which they offered a track to an artist and they turned it down.The duo once pitched a track to Bananarama, with Lowe recalling: “They were always going to be difficult, were’t they?”Tennant added: “They asked us many times to write a song.

And Sarah [Dallin] said, ‘You’ve just picked something off the shelf, haven’t you, and given it to us?’ She just knew. She’s clever.”The Pet Shop Boys recently released their 15th LP last week (April 26).

In a four-star review of the album, NME wrote: “‘Nonetheless’ unfolds like a 10-song short story collection, peppered with richly-drawn characters, and esoteric cultural references.