How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record store
How a 'priceless' Pet Shop Boys letter ended up in an Altrincham record store
Image source, Getty ImagesBy Mark SavageMusic correspondent, BBC News
A letter written by Pet Shop Boys star Neil Tennant, thanking Radio 1's Janice Long for playing the band's first single in 1984, was discovered in a record store in Altrincham.
< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">The note was slipped into the sleeve of a 12-inch copy of West End Girls that store owner Trevor Morris bought in a vinyl lot at a sale up for auction.
"They must not have checked what was inside," he told the BBC.
"Guess they thought it was a bog -standard Pet Shop Boys recording."
When he contacted the auction house to ask if they had sold the memorabilia by mistake, they insisted he keep them.
"They were like, 'What a great find for you!' he laughs.
Image source, Getty ImagesBy Mark SavageMusic correspondent, BBC News
A letter written by Pet Shop Boys star Neil Tennant, thanking Radio 1's Janice Long for playing the band's first single in 1984, was discovered in a record store in Altrincham.
< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">The note was slipped into the sleeve of a 12-inch copy of West End Girls that store owner Trevor Morris bought in a vinyl lot at a sale up for auction.
"They must not have checked what was inside," he told the BBC.
"Guess they thought it was a bog -standard Pet Shop Boys recording."
When he contacted the auction house to ask if they had sold the memorabilia by mistake, they insisted he keep them.
"They were like, 'What a great find for you!' he laughs.
Image source, Getty Images
