Pet Shop boys consist of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and are asynthpop/electronic music duo. They have sold over 100 millionrecords worldwide since their founding in 1981 when they met ina music shop in Chelsea, London. Originally they were calledWest End because of the area in London that they came from buteventually settled on Pet Shop Boys because a couple of theirfriends worked in a pet shop.