PET SHOP BOYS / Zadar / 12.8.

Najuspješniji pop dvojac u povijesti prvi put nastupa u Dalmaciji. 13 studijskih albuma i 22 top ten hita u gotovo 35 godina dugoj karijeri, pa ti vidi..

Pet Shop Boys su zauvijek promijenili pop glazbu. Obogatili su je romansom, glamurom, stilom, visokom modom..evo popisa nagrada i priznanja koje su pritom zasluženo osvojili:

1987: BPI (“Brit”) Awards (U.K.) – Best Single (for “West End Girls”)

1987: Ivor Novello Awards (U.K.) – Best International Hit (for “West End Girls”)

1988: BPI (“Brit”) Awards (U.K.) – Best Group

1988: Ivor Novello Awards (U.K.) – Best International Hit (for “It’s a Sin”)

1988: Houston Film Festival (U.S.) – Gold Jury Award (for It Couldn’t Happen Here)

1988: Berolina Awards (Germany) – Group of the Year

1991: Music Week (U.K.) – Best Video of the Year 1990 (for “Being Boring”)

1994: Siggraph Wave Awards (U.S.) – Best Music Video (for “Liberation”)

1994: Effects & Animation Festival (U.K.) – Best Music Video (for “Liberation”)

1999: Viva Comet Awards (Germany) – Best International Video (for “I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Any More”)

2000: RSH Gold Awards (Germany) – Best International Band

2000: Ivor Novello Awards (U.K.) – Outstanding Contribution to British Music

2003: A-Ward (Germany) – Pioneers of Pop: Outstanding Contribution to Pop Music

2003: World Awards (International) – The World Arts Award

2004: Q Magazine (U.K.) – Q Inspiration Award

2005: Song of the Decade 1985-1994 (U.K.) – “West End Girls” (winner of voting by six million BBC Radio 2 listeners in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Ivor Novello Awards)

2008: Cannes International Advertising Festival (France) – Gold Cyber Lion Award for “Other Interactive Digital Media Innovative Ideas” (for the “Integral” video)

2009: BPI (“Brit”) Awards (U.K.) – Outstanding Contribution to Music

2011: Evening Standard Theatre Awards (U.K.) – “Beyond Theatre” Award (with collaborator Javier De Frutos, for The Most Incredible Thing)

2013: Q Magazine (U.K.) – Q Outstanding Contribution to Music Award

2015: Mnet Asia Music Awards (International) – Worldwide Inspiration Award

2017: VO5 NME Awards (U.K.) – “Godlike Genius” Award

autor: Ante Marković, 30/07/2017