Fiona Brice, who we all know as Placebo's studio musician and touring member for almost one decade, is part of The Separate, a quartet with contemporary vocalists.
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“West End Girls” was released on the album “Orchestral Variations V.01” nine years ago today, on 2nd of July 2012.
The record includes cover versions of 12 songs from the 1980s. It was produced by Rob Kirwan and all tracks were arranged by Fiona.
Apart from Brian with ”West End Girls” you can find covers of The Cure (“Close to me”), U2 (“Stories for boys”), The Smiths (“The night has opened my eyes”), Pixies (“Gigantic”) or The Buggles (“Video killed the radio star”).
“The night has opened my eyes” is sung by Joan as Police Woman who later performed “Protect me from what I want” with Placebo at their MTV Unplugged concert in 2015.
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"West End Girls" is a song by the English pop duo Pet Shop Boys. The lyrics deal with class and the pressures of inner-city life and were partly inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem “The Waste Land”.
"West End Girls" was released twice as a single. The first version was published in 1984 and became a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After Pet Shop Boys had signed with EMI the song was re-recorded, the new version was released in 1985 and reached number one in the UK and the United States in 1986.
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Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police, there's a mad man around
Running down underground to a dive bar
In a West End town
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, in a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
Too many shadows, whispering voices
Faces on posters, too many choices
If, when, why, what?
How much have you got?
Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?
Which do you choose, a hard or soft option
In a West End town a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town in a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
Ooh, a West End town, in a dead end world
East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone
Just you wait 'til I get you home
We've got no future, we've got no past
Here today, built to last
In every city, in every nation
From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
Oh, West End town, in a dead end world
East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
West End girls
West End girls
(How far have you been?)
Girls
East End boys
West End girls
Post by Silke
