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               Most recent updates: September 18, 2023

# What This Website Is All About

This website has no "official" connection to the Pet Shop Boys. It
merely presents my own personal commentary often including attempted
explanations and interpretations on the songs of my favorite
contemporary pop band. Of course, this commentary has often been
influenced by what the Pet Shop Boys themselves, Chris Lowe and Neil
Tennant, have said about their music and by what others have
previously written. Nevertheless, many of the observations I make
here are original with me.

By no means am I suggesting that these are the "only" or "correct"
interpretations. In fact, it's typical of great art, even great pop
art, to lend itself to multiple interpretations. And I do consider
the Pet Shop Boys to be the creators of great pop art. So you can
take or leave my interpretations as you wish. If you disagree, please
don't take offense. Rather, enjoy the fact that we're both fans of
music rich enough to invite different interpretations.

Despite my best efforts, I have no doubt that I'm guilty of at least
some factual errors. I recognize this fact and apologize in advance
for any that may have slipped past me. I'll certainly correct any
errors that come to my attention.

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This site was originally posted on March 16, 2001, and was most
recently revised on September 18, 2023.

      Honored by Yahoo! as a "Pick of the Week" (April 9, 2001)
          and a "2001 Pick of the Year" (December 31, 2001)

Wayne StuderRock on the Wild SideWayne Studer is the author of Rock
on the Wild Side (1994: Leyland Publications).



  

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All text on this website aside from direct quotations (such as of
lyrics and of other nonoriginal content) is copyright (c) 2001-2023 by
Wayne Studer. All Rights Reserved. All lyrics and images are
copyright (c) their respective dates by their respective owners. Brief
quotations and small, low-resolution images are used for
identification and critical commentary, thereby constituting Fair Use
under U.S. copyright law. If, however, the owners of any copyrighted
items object to their use on this site, I will immediately remove the
pertinent items upon request and verification. Billboard chart data
are copyright (c) their respective dates by Nielsen Business Media,
Inc.


A note on attribution:

I don't mind when other writers, either online or elsewhere, use the
ideas I express here. That's one of the reason this website exists.
Ideally they will cite me as the source of those ideas or otherwise
attribute them to me. That's wonderful, and I greatly appreciate it.
If they don't, however, that's unfortunate but forgivable. After all,
people don't own ideas.

What does annoy me tremendously is when other writers use my writing
more or less verbatim--often my exact wording, though sometimes with
only very minor adjustments--thereby essentially quoting me, but
without crediting me as the original writer. People do own the
specific ways in which they express their ideas. If you're going to
quote me, please credit me. It's the right, moral and, in fact, legal
thing to do.


A note about this website being listed as "Not secure" in the URL/
address bar of certain web-browsing programs:

I've decided against investing the additional time, effort, and
(especially) money--an average of about $300 per year--that it would
require for me to register, set up, and maintain a "secure" site 
(https as opposed to http). "Security" of this sort is generally
important only for websites that:

  * require registration for use--in other words, a username and
    password;
  * collect personal, confidential information; and/or
  * take online payments via credit cards, PayPal, bank accounts, and
    the like.

I don't do any of those things. So my site really doesn't need to be
"secure" in this way, particularly considering the costs involved. I
hope this doesn't dissuade you from visiting.



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