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Pet Shops Boys: sing about police shooting Jean Charles de Menezes

Pet Shop Boys sing about Menezes

Anna Davis
17.03.09

THE Pet Shop Boys have written a song about Stockwell Tube shooting victim Jean Charles de Menezes.

The song, We're All Criminals Now, is the B-side to the pop duo's latest single, Love etc.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe sing about police shooting Mr de Menezes at the Underground station after mistaking him for a suicide bomber and voice fears that liberties are being eroded.

The song includes the lyrics: "Got the bus to the station/Music playing in my head/Ran to get on the Tube train/Police shoot someone dead."

Tennant said: "The title of the song and the song itself sum up the way the Government treats the people of the UK. We are all under constant surveillance and are all treated as potentially guilty, as if we are about to commit some kind of crime."

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It is a fact that we are indeed "under constant surveillance" and are the most spied upon nation in the world. I'll be interested in hearing PSB's new song when it is released. Someone has to say it how it is, so why not musicians?

- Yvonne, Doncaster, UK

Seems they really are becoming the Gilbert and George of the pop world. G and G also dabbled in politics but at least one did not dress like an architect all in black and the other like Madonna. I presume they will be turning down the chance of a soiree at No 10.

- Jack Spratt, Richmond, England

I suppose it is one way of making money.

- David Nigel Braham, Milan Italy


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