‘All the love we hide’: The concealed lyrics to one of Pet Shop Boys’ greatest songs

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— ‘Even Enoch Powell, one of postwar Britain's most notorious politicians… influential character of our age.’’ Page 454, Sandbrook, Dominic, ‘Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles’ (Abacus, 2015)

— ‘In a 2009 interview with OUT magazine, Neil Tennant described… piecing the cause of his death together.’ Page 99, 100, Wade, Ian, ‘1984: The Year Pop Went Queer’, (Nine Eight Books, 2024); Sullivan, Andrew, Interview with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, OUT magazine, June/July 2009

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