Years long before the Pet Shop Boys remix of Madonna's Sorry (PSB Maxi Mix). Madonna's & The Pet Shop Boys long history goes back to 1988.

The Pet Shop Boys wrote the song Heart (originally called Heartbeat at the time) with Madonna in mind. In the inner notes of their first greatest hits album "Discography" they say,

"When we wrote this song we wanted to submit it to Madonna but we didn't dare risk disappointment"

In the end they kept the song and it hit #1 UK singles chart for three weeks.

 

So after a busy 1987 with the continued success of the true blue album, the who's that girl, film, soundtrack album, tour, and a remix album keeping her busy, 1988 was a quieter year with her on broadway with Speed The Plow would it have been a good idea for Madonna record the song and release it (keeping fans happy in between the who's that girl & like a prayer eras). Would this have worked well for Madonna?.

I think this would have been a great song for Madonna to release this would have been a new era for her going all electro. Lucky for us she did finally go electro when no one else was. Heart is one of the best pet shop boys songs ever if not the best in my view.

I adore this song, it would've been great for her. :wub:

I really love Being Boring, West End Girls, What Have I Done To Deserve This (with Dusty Springfield), Did You See Me Coming?, Domino Dancing & Minimal they are all great psb songs.

Never heard it :lol: but I'm sure Madonna would have suited the song.

You should listen to it, it's a really good song.

PSB and Madonna is the ultimate 80s pop duo that never happened... would've worked a treat!

Here's a interview from November 1983 when Neil Tennant was working for smash hits.

 

In November 1983, over two years before the Pet Shop Boys became famous, a Smash Hits journalist called Neil Tennant interviewed Madonna.

 

The story behind how the interview came about goes like this: Neil was in New York, helping to set up an American version of Smash Hits called Star Hits. One day – possibly because A Flock Of Seagulls weren’t available – Neil decided to interview a new singer called Madonna. At that time she wasn’t particularly famous either; she’d had a couple of singles out, but so far only her song “Holiday” had been much of a success. All the same Neil reckoned she was well worth a piece in the new magazine.

 

Now, of course, they’re both fans of each other (the other day Neil even dropped along to have a chat with her at her birthday party) but at the time of the interview Neil didn’t know her at all.

 

He set off to meet her in a New York cafe, tape recorder in hand, and then spent the next hour drinking cappucinos and listening to an enthusiastic torrent of words from a young woman who turned out to become just about the most famous megastar on the planet. “I hardly said a word,” remembers Neil, couldn’t stop her talking…”

 

NEIL TENNANT: Where are you from?

 

MADONNA: I come from a big Italian family. I have eight brothers and sisters. I was born in Detroit and then moved to Pontiac and then moved to another city just north of Detroit. Those are all car factory cities so everybody’s families worked in the car factories. I went to three different Catholic schools – uniforms and nuns hitting you over the head with staplers, very strict and regimented.

To my supiriors I seemed like a very good girl. I was very good at getting into these situations where I was the hall monitor and I reported people who weren’t behaving. And I used to torture people but in the end it came back to me.

 

NEIL: You used to torture people?

 

MADONNA: Just make up thing that they didn’t really do. But my mother dies when I was really young so the nuns forgave me for a lot of the things because they thought, “well, she doesn’t have a monther and her father’s never there” and I knew it so I milked it for everything I could. From the very start I was a bad girl.

 

NEIL: Were you musical?

 

MADONNA: I had a very musical upbringing. I studied piano for a year but I quit. Actually my teacher made me quit because I never went to lessons. I used to hide in a ditch. I used to turn the timer back. When I was suppose to practise for an hour my mother would leave the room and I’d turn the timer so it looked like I only had 15 minutes left. I convinced my father to let me take dance lessons instead. Everyone else had to take musical instrument study but I got to take dance lessons – ballet and then, when I got older, jazz and tap and modern and tap and all that crap.

 

NEIL: What kind of music were you listening to?

 

MADONNA: The very first records I used to listen to were twist (1960 dance “craze”) records. My mother and father had a lot of twist records I did the limbo to Chubby Checker’s records — you know, you go under a broom — and my mother and father used to twist all the time, believe it or not. And I listened to Johnny Mathis and Harry Belafonte and Sam Cooke and stuff. I got into more pop music when I was older.

 

NEIL: Things like The Beatles?

 

MADONNA: Not The Beatles really. I moved into things like “The Letter” by The Box Tops and The Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” — I love that record — and “Incense And Peppermints” (by wonky “psychedelic” pop group Strawberry Alarm Clock) and “Quinn The Eskimo” (old Bob Dylon ditty called “The Mighty Quinn”). All my uncles, who were really young, and my brothers used to buy these records. And then there was the Motown things. I lived in a real integrated neighbourhood. We were one of the only white families living in the neighbourhood actually and all my girlfriends had Motown and black stuff. And they had yard dances in their back yards, little 45 turntables and a stack of records and everyone just danced in the driveway and the back yard.

 

NEIL: When did you start singing?

 

MADONNA: When I was at school and at church I sang in choirs, and musical theatre and stuff in high school — you know, My Fair Lady and The Sound Of Music — and then I came to New York. And when I came to New York in the beginning I was aiming to be a professional dancer. I was 17 then.

I didn’t know anyone when I came here to New York. I didn’t know what I was going to do when I got there. I just knew.

 

NEIL: What had made you realise you were good enough to be a professional singer/dancer?

 

MADONNA: Well, I always knew I was good enough because I always got lead roles in everything when I was going to high school so I thought I might as well go and try it in the big time, so that’s what I did. I always had an idea that I wanted to be a performer and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to dance or sing or be an actress or what. I just started concentrating on dancing because i was much more of a discipline. I’ve never really studied voice — that just came naturally to me; dancing gave me a focus. I had to really work at it. But then, when I got to New York I was dancing in companies for a while; it just wasn’t satisfying enough. I like modern dance companies but there are so few good companies and so many dancers competing with each other and you just worked your ass off for nothing. I was like going to musical theatres and telling them I could dunce and I could sing because I wanted to use my voice.