Although the lyrics appear to refer to the King's Cross fire of November 1987, the album that the song appeared on was released two months before it. The song is actually about desperation and unemployment. It was suggested that Pet Shop Boys release it a single to raise money for charity following the fire,[citation needed] but they never did. Music magazines at the time though (such as Smash Hits) carried adverts to call premium rate phone lines to hear the song, and the money from the phone call would then go to the charity for fire victims.
This album , pure bliss. Forever in debt to the pet shop boys for making my time on earth such fun with their amazing music. Feel like I know them as brothers , and I havent even met them. Incredible music.
Pet Shop Boys seems to be one of the best bands ever, like Depeche Mode, A-ha, Tears For Fears, Bryan Adams, Roxette etc. Does anyone agree? Lithuania :)
The brilliance of this song is just sublime. It haunts you on so many levels and a lush production to boot, including this video, Thanks Neil, Chris and Derek...........................xo
Kings Cross and Being Boring chronicle the moment better than any other songs of that time - AIDS, loss, disillusionment, fleeting encounters, sometimes hope. Derek Jarman's film provides all the clues you need to understand what this song is about, it is a masterpiece in its own right on top of PSB's most powerfully sad song.
One of my favourite PSB songs. This and "It couldn't happen here". I just adore them. Great video too..... "So i went looking out today, for the one who got away....."
One of my very favourite Pet Shop Boys songs, brings back great memories of my childhood in the 80's, I remember the first album I had of theirs was Actually which had this song on it, great times.
I'm in a PSB retro week, going back in time to the music of my youth & loving every bit. Needless to say how brilliant is their new album, YES. Neil & Chris r genius!!!!!!
We are both so the same. I'm 34 I was a hard core PSB fan since 12 to 16 years old. Then I fell in love with the mode and have been a fan ever since. PSB and DM are my all time favourites. This song and 'It couldn't happen here are very dear to me. 'Actually' and 'Please' are very special albums.
Superb song and such an evocative video, thanks Derek Jarman (RIP) and Pet Shop Boys. Didn't know the song until recently but listening to the words and reading about the background to the writing of it, the song is clearly about the loss of so many from Aids and the tough times for so many young, particularly men, looking for work and a new life in the Big Smoke in late 1980's England. Sometimes having to become Rent Boys to survive, and toughen up overnight - and maybe turning to heroin to dull the pain and loneliness. And after the horror of the the Kings Cross Fire, I think the PSB were right not to release this song in reference to it, even for the charity. I well remember that night of the fire. Prince Edward was switching the lights on in Regents Street and I had stayed late in work in the West End to go and watch it. For me, I was lucky that night - my journey afterwards took me southbound to home and safety. But God Bless those souls who were not:- those who perished in the fire, and their poor, bereaved loved ones. RIP for all those deceased and also remembering those injured that terrible night.
Amazing seems to me, that there is a rythm in it, wich is like a drug and atleast for me, it is working deep inside me, outcovers all the hurt, all the bad, all the unsaid, forgotten, left behind, or aside, but not just in general, also on a very personal level, very strong and very gentle also. Knowing the story behind it, makes it only more beautiful. But for me, I see in it a traveller, a softy you know, a kind soul, who has such a great world around, a wast filled up space with wath ever you want to choose in life, Young and beautiful as can be, but just can't fit you know, nowhere and to nobody, he is trying, but fails again and again, so he is hanging around a crossroads, a statiton, on a point where People are coming and going, but he stays.. collecting hurt and sadness, wich is realy all around. Not as a sad and bad world. But just a world. Where noghting is certain. Only death. All other is a like a hush, a rush, warm wind throo a dream. Some get ahead and some are left behind. But there will be always a statiton somewhere. With People coming and going. Laughing, craying, living, loving and dieing.
20 years later, and this song still runs deep. Proof that Synth pop can be beautiful, and this masterpiece could only be created by such master musicians as the Pet Shop Boys.
It takes more than a matter of time. As easy as true, and PetShopBoys were first to understand the tragedy. And not only that, no, they made a hymn out of it. That is real pop music.
Thanks for all the compliments that you post here referring to the song King's Cross, the Pet Shop Boys. Besides Chris and Neil are amazing, this song is for me HOURS CONCOURS! It's like an anthem for me! I humbly thank on behalf of the Pet Shop Boys (if I may have got this right), because King's Cross is a very special song for me and maybe for all of us! Thanks
It meant so much when this song came out. I was young. Never in love but wanted to. Never thought it would happen. It did. It lived. It died. And now this song has a different meaning, yet it's just the same. In everything, there are no guarantees. In everything...
Your comment runs parallel to everything that's happened in my life.I was young (21) when this song came out just a few months before the terrible fire at King's Cross Station.I had never loved but have loved and lost since.Now 30 years later everything is different I have lost people very close to me in the true sense of the word.The only thing that hasn't changed is what this song means to me, important today as it was all those years ago.
AWESOME!!! This song is one of the bests, Chris and Neil made something marvelous with this song. When i listening, i think those peoples, who dying that horrible day... PERFECT, thank U..
rolwal68 Thank you, the reason I chose it was we met on holiday in Tenerife, myself from Edinburgh, her from London. The reason that it was chosen was that December 1994 on my first visit down to meet her I had the album playing actually on my Walkman. As the train started to slow down coming through the tunnels just north of Kings Cross station, this track started to play. After 19 blissful years together, I couldn't think of a more fitting track to play on her final journey to me that the one that brought me to her - there wasn't a dry eye at the funeral service x
theturpster I'm about to cry right now... I'm sorry for your loss. But it sounds like a fitting farewell. King's Cross is a place for both departures and arrivals.
By far number one song and video ever for me. Simple, black&White, beautiful, strong and gently played music...the only video and song I could compare is Black's Wonderful life
Germans are often not so quick when it comes to the lyrics of a song. This one is the classic exception- from the first moment I heard this song I knew I wanted to understand it. Why? I think it´s magic. Later I moved to London for a year, and you know where I stranded first? Yes. It´s true.
I was in the Army in the 80's and we used to travel a lot by train, I can still smell that station and those trains! Never forget the squealing noise they made as they pulled in.
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved break ups are so painful but everything in life is just a thought everything changes time heals things get better x
Two years later and I’m destroyed I’ve lost everything because I couldn’t survive the break up of my relationship I’m now about to commit suicide after bc battling for two years it’s come to an end god bless you all and never judge me 🙏🏻🖤
Yet another video of great historical and nostalgic value showing a part of redeveloped London, the underground station especially as it was.As for the street scenes, compare to those in the film "The Lady killers."
this is pet shop boys in a very surrealism mood like so many of their videos i just love the realism of it. if it was a matter of do or die i,d of long died if it wasnt for theese two guys chris and neil
Oque é música? Música é tudo oque você já ouviu!! King´s Cross? King´s Cross não é música, é uma obra de arte...é um verdadeiro Hino!!!! Parabéns Cris e Neil. Outra banda como os Pet Shop Boys, só depois que Jesus voltar!!!! What's music? Music is what you've heard everything! King's Cross? King's Cross is not music, is a work of art ... is a true anthem!! Congratulations Chris and Neil. Another band equal to the Pet Shop Boys, only after Jesus returns!!
They did music in the 80's, then in the 90's.. they kept composing in the new millenium, and maybe you are not aware, they released ELECTRIC in 2014. Spandau or Duran Duran still live in the 80's. PSB are forever.
Nada é mais forte do que KIng´s Cross. Essa canção é o topo do que pode existir. King´s Cross 100% perfeita;.Pet Shop Boys 200% perfeitos! Tennant e Lowe estão para a música, como Jesus está para nós humanos; perfeitos! There is nothing stronger and will not exist, that the Kin g's Cross,this song is the top of which can exist in all directions,melody, timbres, etc;King's Cross 100% perfect ;PSB 200% perfect! Tennant and Lowe are to the music, as Jesus is for us humans.
album actually; japanese title(哀しみの天使=It's a Sin) is the best work in theirs. all tracks are excellent, especially this song and rent. they are artistic.
@1985OMD agree with you, absolutely, because I remember when one was saying that Pet Shop was bullsh, let's listen to T-Rex.. Now we have great stuff too, but one thing that '80ies I think were peak of pop music, a lot of good melodies, styles were being created and that incredible aura and mood, it is unforgettable, unique.. as todays music of course
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The best song they have ever written which was not released as a single🤘👁👍🏿
Should've been released as a single, amazing song.
Masterpiece. Maybe the best PSB song ever.
Aye.
Although the lyrics appear to refer to the King's Cross fire of November 1987, the album that the song appeared on was released two months before it. The song is actually about desperation and unemployment.
It was suggested that Pet Shop Boys release it a single to raise money for charity following the fire,[citation needed] but they never did. Music magazines at the time though (such as Smash Hits) carried adverts to call premium rate phone lines to hear the song, and the money from the phone call would then go to the charity for fire victims.
This album , pure bliss. Forever in debt to the pet shop boys for making my time on earth such fun with their amazing music. Feel like I know them as brothers , and I havent even met them. Incredible music.
I have been to Kings Cross Station, how ironic?
Pet Shop Boys seems to be one of the best bands ever, like Depeche Mode, A-ha, Tears For Fears, Bryan Adams, Roxette etc. Does anyone agree? Lithuania :)
Andrius Stasiukynas _only Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are my Personal favourites, i like Tears for Fears, and A-Ha as well, pet Shop Boys number 1 in my book
TOTALLY AGREE Andious, The Thompson Twins ain't bad either. I feel about eight years old when I hear this, and smile too, nicer time back then.
We get alot of Lithuanian trucks in the UK hahahaha I love Lithuania
To me it's only Pet Shop Boys - none of the others... :D
The brilliance of this song is just sublime. It haunts you on so many levels and a lush production to boot, including this video, Thanks Neil, Chris and Derek...........................xo
I love Pet shop boys since I was a teenage gilr!!! Still love their music and songs!!!
After all the years, it`s such a gorgeous tune. Can`t get it out of my head. Please play this on my grave.
Kings Cross and Being Boring chronicle the moment better than any other songs of that time - AIDS, loss, disillusionment, fleeting encounters, sometimes hope. Derek Jarman's film provides all the clues you need to understand what this song is about, it is a masterpiece in its own right on top of PSB's most powerfully sad song.
Count me among the people who needed this song in the dark days, and love it now in the days of light as simply beautiful, timeless music.
One of my favourite PSB songs. This and "It couldn't happen here". I just adore them. Great video too..... "So i went looking out today, for the one who got away....."
einer ihrer emotionalsten songs ,den ich seit vielen jahren immer wieder gerne höre .
What a brilliant video. 'Actually' is my favourite PSB album, and always thought this song made a spectacular ending. Love it. Thanks!
Very beautiful and sad song. So much truth in the lyrics.
I love PSB lyrics, so poetic and not trivial. Non native English speakers like me may learn many new words and idioms from it
One of my very favourite Pet Shop Boys songs, brings back great memories of my childhood in the 80's, I remember the first album I had of theirs was Actually which had this song on it, great times.
Incredible song....and many happy memories of kings x looking like that in the 80s ♥️
I'm in a PSB retro week, going back in time to the music of my youth & loving every bit. Needless to say how brilliant is their new album, YES.
Neil & Chris r genius!!!!!!
Even after all these years this song still sends shivers down my spine...
This song has gotten me through so many bleak moments, and it still does. Thanks to Neil and Chris. GBY (God bless you) PSB's
We are both so the same. I'm 34 I was a hard core PSB fan since 12 to 16 years old. Then I fell in love with the mode and have been a fan ever since. PSB and DM are my all time favourites. This song and 'It couldn't happen here are very dear to me. 'Actually' and 'Please' are very special albums.
im 37 and i totally agree with you, actually and please are very special albums...bring back lots of memories
Amazing music! Would struggle to find another like it.
God i just love this song, one of my all time favourites by the PSB. And this video by Derek Jarman makes it even more special !!!
timeless... nuff said :)
This is the only video that's ever been made for King's Cross.
Best song ever made!
So powerful and so thoughtful. I love the Pet Shop Boys!
I am an American, and I have been to King's Cross Station in London. It brought me back to this song.
Thnks u me two♥️♥️
Superb song and such an evocative video, thanks Derek Jarman (RIP) and Pet Shop Boys. Didn't know the song until recently but listening to the words and reading about the background to the writing of it, the song is clearly about the loss of so many from Aids and the tough times for so many young, particularly men, looking for work and a new life in the Big Smoke in late 1980's England. Sometimes having to become Rent Boys to survive, and toughen up overnight - and maybe turning to heroin to dull the pain and loneliness. And after the horror of the the Kings Cross Fire, I think the PSB were right not to release this song in reference to it, even for the charity. I well remember that night of the fire. Prince Edward was switching the lights on in Regents Street and I had stayed late in work in the West End to go and watch it. For me, I was lucky that night - my journey afterwards took me southbound to home and safety. But God Bless those souls who were not:- those who perished in the fire, and their poor, bereaved loved ones. RIP for all those deceased and also remembering those injured that terrible night.
Amazing seems to me, that there is a rythm in it, wich is like a drug and atleast for me, it is working deep inside me, outcovers all the hurt, all the bad, all the unsaid, forgotten, left behind, or aside, but not just in general, also on a very personal level, very strong and very gentle also. Knowing the story behind it, makes it only more beautiful. But for me, I see in it a traveller, a softy you know, a kind soul, who has such a great world around, a wast filled up space with wath ever you want to choose in life, Young and beautiful as can be, but just can't fit you know, nowhere and to nobody, he is trying, but fails again and again, so he is hanging around a crossroads, a statiton, on a point where People are coming and going, but he stays.. collecting hurt and sadness, wich is realy all around. Not as a sad and bad world. But just a world. Where noghting is certain. Only death. All other is a like a hush, a rush, warm wind throo a dream. Some get ahead and some are left behind. But there will be always a statiton somewhere. With People coming and going. Laughing, craying, living, loving and dieing.
Even though I wasn't alive when this song came out, it makes me imagine I'm there. That's power.
Perhaps their best song! Will take a ride on the "East Coast Main Line" starting from Kings Cross, when I am in London next time!
20 years later, and this song still runs deep. Proof that Synth pop can be beautiful, and this masterpiece could only be created by such master musicians as the Pet Shop Boys.
Who is still listening to this song? Its 2017!!!!
Terence Lai - 2018
count me in.....
Me too... PSB was good beside BEATLES.
Heartwarming Song and such a mistake not release this masterpiece as a single. One of the best Songs of Chris and Neil
Praise God! I have been waiting to find this video for far too long. The 1980s have returned forever!!!!!
This video is so inspiring and ahead of its time even though it was filmed in the eighties
It takes more than a matter of time. As easy as true, and PetShopBoys were first to understand the tragedy. And not only that, no, they made a hymn out of it. That is real pop music.
I loved very much Pet Shop Boys music as a teenager over 20 years ago and still I love, maybe much more now. They are amazing!!
STUNNING ~ this track and video just get better with age!
If all "pop" music sounds like this then I'll be damn proud to tell the world that I love pop music.....
What an awesome song n video!!
Thanks for all the compliments that you post here referring to the song King's Cross, the Pet Shop Boys. Besides Chris and Neil are amazing, this song is for me HOURS CONCOURS! It's like an anthem for me! I humbly thank on behalf of the Pet Shop Boys (if I may have got this right), because King's Cross is a very special song for me and maybe for all of us! Thanks
This song was written before the King's Cross fire in1987.
It meant so much when this song came out. I was young. Never in love but wanted to. Never thought it would happen. It did. It lived. It died. And now this song has a different meaning, yet it's just the same. In everything, there are no guarantees. In everything...
Your comment runs parallel to everything that's happened in my life.I was young (21) when this song came out just a few months before the terrible fire at King's Cross Station.I had never loved but have loved and lost since.Now 30 years later everything is different I have lost people very close to me in the true sense of the word.The only thing that hasn't changed is what this song means to me, important today as it was all those years ago.
I love all of their songs and its difficult to choose any favs, but this is definitely one of them. The music, lyrics, Neil's singing its wonderful :)
Pet Shop Boys - I love you forever!
AWESOME!!! This song is one of the bests, Chris and Neil made something marvelous with this song. When i listening, i think those peoples, who dying that horrible day...
PERFECT, thank U..
Have to have this at my funeral, my fav song of all time a masterpiece by Tennant/Lowe
I had this played yesterday at my wifes funeral x
I am very sorry to hear about your loss.
rolwal68 Thank you, the reason I chose it was we met on holiday in Tenerife, myself from Edinburgh, her from London. The reason that it was chosen was that December 1994 on my first visit down to meet her I had the album playing actually on my Walkman. As the train started to slow down coming through the tunnels just north of Kings Cross station, this track started to play. After 19 blissful years together, I couldn't think of a more fitting track to play on her final journey to me that the one that brought me to her - there wasn't a dry eye at the funeral service x
theturpster I'm about to cry right now... I'm sorry for your loss. But it sounds like a fitting farewell. King's Cross is a place for both departures and arrivals.
Thanks guys for your comments, much appreciated :)
On of the best Songs!
My goodness I LOVE IT!!! .
Back in the day when it didn't take a week to get from the main station down to the tube lines!
Einer meiner Lieblingssongs von Neil & Chris
By far number one song and video ever for me. Simple, black&White, beautiful, strong and gently played music...the only video and song I could compare is Black's Wonderful life
One of their best tracks so far.
Yes one of the best track of all time by PSB...........
sheer class...no more said...thanks for the post ......ps great sound thank you .southampton.
Germans are often not so quick when it comes to the lyrics of a song. This one is the classic exception- from the first moment I heard this song I knew I wanted to understand it. Why? I think it´s magic. Later I moved to London for a year, and you know where I stranded first? Yes. It´s true.
This song made me want to know London.
I was in the Army in the 80's and we used to travel a lot by train, I can still smell that station and those trains! Never forget the squealing noise they made as they pulled in.
HEAVENLY SONG....
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved break ups are so painful but everything in life is just a thought everything changes time heals things get better x
Two years later and I’m destroyed I’ve lost everything because I couldn’t survive the break up of my relationship I’m now about to commit suicide after bc battling for two years it’s come to an end god bless you all and never judge me 🙏🏻🖤
Neil and Chris are the Best. Love you Guys.
Brilliant. Thanks for the upload.
It`s my own personal favourite song from an outstanding album. The Pet Shop Boys are still fantastic in my opinion. 10 stars from 5.
Fantastic song...I love with all my heart this song
WOW!!!! Perfect! I love this song!! Superb!!
tengo que volver a ese lugar y escuchar una y una vez esta cancion
Just simply perfect.
WOW!!!! Perfect! I love this song!!
really great !!!
I love the PetShopBoys,its just fantastic music.
awesome, deeply melancholic, great video also. Really fits the music.
Great of the greatest!!
EL MEJOR DUO TECNHO DE LA HISTORIA....DE LOS 80 Y HOY VIGENTES....PSB 4 EVER.
Yet another video of great historical and nostalgic value showing a part of redeveloped London, the underground station especially as it was.As for the street scenes, compare to those in the film "The Lady killers."
The best f*****g pop duo ever..So 80's..Neil & Chris are pop gods!..
I love very much this melody!
Kings Cros, que gran canción!!...yo me hice grande escuchando esta maravillosa música. gracias PSB!!
There is nothing left to say...a true classic .
this is pet shop boys in a very surrealism mood like so many of their videos i just love the realism of it. if it was a matter of do or die i,d of long died if it wasnt for theese two guys chris and neil
This theme makes me relax and reflect.
ohhh I love this song!
Remembering 1987 ..........................
Beautiful
best track of all psb
Heavenly!
Oque é música? Música é tudo oque você já ouviu!! King´s Cross? King´s Cross não é música, é uma obra de arte...é um verdadeiro Hino!!!! Parabéns Cris e Neil. Outra banda como os Pet Shop Boys, só depois que Jesus voltar!!!!
What's music? Music is what you've heard everything! King's Cross? King's Cross is not music, is a work of art ... is a true anthem!! Congratulations Chris and Neil. Another band equal to the Pet Shop Boys, only after Jesus returns!!
P.S.B rules !!!
the only band that still makes the great music of the 80's
They did music in the 80's, then in the 90's.. they kept composing in the new millenium, and maybe you are not aware, they released ELECTRIC in 2014. Spandau or Duran Duran still live in the 80's. PSB are forever.
Nada é mais forte do que KIng´s Cross. Essa canção é o topo do que pode existir. King´s Cross 100% perfeita;.Pet Shop Boys 200% perfeitos! Tennant e Lowe estão para a música, como Jesus está para nós humanos; perfeitos!
There is nothing stronger and will not exist, that the Kin g's Cross,this song is the top of which can exist in all directions,melody, timbres, etc;King's Cross 100% perfect ;PSB 200% perfect! Tennant and Lowe are to the music, as Jesus is for us humans.
On the top, as always...
love this tune ...
Sensacional,vai para os meus favoritos
luv it..
Ahh right had no idea, cheers for that
crying.
I love this song.
R.I.P. to all the victims of this tradegy
album actually; japanese title(哀しみの天使=It's a Sin) is the best work in theirs. all tracks are excellent, especially this song and rent. they are artistic.
Perhaps one day they will release the "Projections" on dvd!!
@1985OMD agree with you, absolutely, because I remember when one was saying that Pet Shop was bullsh, let's listen to T-Rex.. Now we have great stuff too, but one thing that '80ies I think were peak of pop music, a lot of good melodies, styles were being created and that incredible aura and mood, it is unforgettable, unique.. as todays music of course
Love it...
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