6 or 7 guest appearances by Neil and/or Chris in other artists' music videos (plus a few more if we stretch it)
1. "Nothing Has Been Proved" - Dusty Springfield
Chris and Neil, who wrote and produced this latter-day hit for Dusty, appear as reporters in the video.
2. "Getting Away with It" (both videos) - Electronic
Two for the price of one. Neil, who co-wrote the song with Sumner and Marr, appears in his role of backup singer in both of the videos made for this track, though at times he's more like a co-lead, sharing vocal duties with Sumner.
3. "Disappointed" - Electronic
This time Neil takes front and center in the role of lead singer. (From this perspective it may not be altogether appropriate to call this a mere "guest appearance.")
4. "Hallo Spaceboy" - David Bowie
The Boys appear intermittently in performance scenes that alternate with those featuring Bowie himself. While Chris plays keyboard, Neil sings backup—once again sometimes more like a co-lead.
5. "Do the Right Thing" - Ian Wright
Chris makes several brief appearances in the video for this song, which he co-wrote and produced for U.K. soccer star Ian Wright. Perhaps surprisingly, Chris doesn't wear dark glasses. Perhaps not surprisingly, he's wearing a hat—in this case, a striped wool cap.
6. "I Can Change" - Brandon Flowers
Neil contributes a single spoken line—"And when you're looking for a change…"—to this 2015 solo effort by the lead singer of The Killers, and he makes an appropriately brief cameo appearance speaking that line in the song's official lyric video.
7. (maybe) "Left to My Own Devices" – Chris Catalyst
In this 2024 cover of the PSB classic, Chris Catalyst's face very briefly (blink and you'll miss them) undergoes a strange digital transformations and back again at several significant points—such as at about the 0:38 mark when he sings "party animal," at 1:27 when he sings "photographer," and at about 2:51 as he sings "It's not a crime when you look the way you do"—to someone else's face, bearing a slight resemblance to Neil Tennant wearing glasses. Is that really Neil? Some think so, and I concede the distinct possibility, but I won't be 100% sure about it myself unless Messrs. Catalyst and/or Tennant (or someone else in a position actually to know) confirms it.
And several other videos in which one or both of them also appear—sort of:
- "Success" - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
This 1988 vid very briefly includes a still shot of the Boys taken from their "West End Girls" video alongside similar images of other artists.
- "Education" - Okay
Also from 1988, this music video by the German band Okay provides a fleeting and partially obscured glimpse of a PSB poster above a classroom chalkboard.
- "I've Got Your Music" - Saint Etienne
This delightful 2012 video features an assortment of everyday folks holding copies of what are apparently their favorite vinyl records. Quite a few of them are PSB releases, some of which clearly feature images of Neil and/or Chris.
- "Meet Me in a House of Love" - Cut Copy
The face shot of Neil from the cover of Discography can be seen within a Sgt. Pepper-ish montage of celebrity faces that repeatedly appears in the video for this 2013 track by this Australian band led by Dan Whitford. (Incidentally, I don't recognize most of the other celebrities, but I definitely recognize David Crosby, Robin Gibb, Lionel Richie, Donna Summer, and Outkast's Andre 3000. Bob Dylan, Liam Gallagher, and Ringo Starr may also be in there as well, but I'm not as sure about them.)
- "700,000 Records " - J'Aime featuring Françoiz Breut
This video, which displays a large assortment of single sleeves moving across the screen, includes (at about the 2:34 point) the Boys' sleeve for the "Rent" single, on which they themselves appear.
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