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Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) was released as a single in 1985 and then in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the UK and U.S. with its second release. Written as a satire of Thatcherism and its embodiment in conspicuous consumption and yuppies in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, the song’s indirect attack on its subject matter has come to exemplify the Pet Shop Boys as ironists in their songwriting. The first version of the song, recorded with the duo’s first producer, Bobby Orlando, was not released; upon signing with record label Parlophone, they re-recorded the song with J. J. Jeczalik (of Art of Noise) and Nicholas Froome. The original single release charted lowly at number 116 in the UK, to be exceedingly outdone by the number one spectacle of the second release of “West End Girls” in multiple countries. With producer Stephen Hague still on board from that release, a new single version and a version for the duo’s debut album, Please, were mixed. The second release of “Opportunities”, following the album’s release, resulted in better chart performance. It is currently the only single from the band to chart higher in the US than the UK, becoming the duo’s second Top 10 single in the US, peaking at #10, and just missing out (#11) in the UK.

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitar and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally backing vocals.
Starting out, the two called themselves West End, because of their love of London’s West End, but later they came up with the name Pet Shop Boys, which derived from friends of theirs who worked in a pet shop in Ealing.
They have sold over 100 million records worldwide, and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records. Since 1986, they have achieved 42 Top 30 singles and 22 Top 10 hits in the UK, including four Number Ones. (Quelle Wikipedia)