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Niel from Pet Shop Boys talks about Confidential

"Confidential was written specifically for Tina Turner. Tina Turner had indicated to us when we worked with Liza Minnelli -we bumped into her once with Liza at a film preview-that she wanted to work with us. She said, 'I'm so jealous that Liza got you guys first'. So we sat down and listened to Tina Turner's Greatest Hits.

We've always loved 'Let's Stay Together', and I think we listened to the verse of 'We Don't Need Another Hero'. We just needed to get the idea of her voice. There's also a sort of sound, with the sax and everything. I suppose we were trying to write something that was a little bit more r'n'b, but I don't think we really succeeded in that. But in particular the sax intro, which was played on an Emulator sample, definitely sounded like something from a Tina Turner record. We wrote it at Chris's house.

Chris was writing the music and got a lovely chord change, and I saw that the headline in theDailyMirror- Pete Gleadall reads the DailyMkror- was CONFIDENTIAL. I think it was about a Tory sex scandal - it's our second song to be inspired by the same person's misbehaviour; the first one being 'In Private'. That was on his first sex scandal. I think it's a weakness that 'Confidential' has exactly the same theme as 'In Private': a woman who's having a love affair with a man who's married. Having said that, when Tina Turner recorded it, she said, 'Oh yeah, I can relate to this'.

We worked on it some more in Sarm West and I re- sang the backing vocals and put in the harmony section in the middle bit, and we did a quick mix of it and sent it to Tina's manager. We didn't release our version until several years later; when it was a b- side of 'Single-bilingual'. For Tina's version, which we produced with Chris Porter; we used our programming, and in fact on hers you can still hear Chris's Emulator sax solo. There are also the same backing vocals, though I added to them. I kept turning them down but Tina kept wanting more of them. It eventually appeared on her Wildest Dreams album. I think Tina was secretly disappointed she really wanted an 'It's a sin' stomper. And actually Tina Turner doing an 'It's a sin' kind of thing would be great."