Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (1984)

"West End Girls" is a song by pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in 1984 for the first time and re-released in 1986. It was written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and was their first number one hit. The title refers to London\'s divide between the traditional and working class East End and the cosmopolitan, consumer-driven West End ("In a West End town, a dead end world / The East End boys and West End girls"). The lyric "From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station" refers to the train route taken by Vladimir Lenin when he was smuggled by the Germans to Russia during the World War I, and to Edmund Wilson\'s book on the subject, To the Finland Station. "West End Girls" music video consists of shots of Neil rapping in various down-at-heel parts of London.

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