40 YEARS SINCE THE RELEASE OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘PLEASE’, PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE ‘PET SHOP BOYS VOLUME’

THIS NEW HARDBACK BOOK IS THE COMPLETE VISUAL RECORD OF PET SHOP BOYS FROM 1984 TO 2024 AND WILL BE RELEASED IN APRIL 2026

Pet Shop Boys today announce the forthcoming publication of Volume, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, ‘Please’. It will be published by distinguished art publishers Thames & Hudson on April 7th.Pet Shop Boys Volume updates, in a different format (234 x 156 mm), the 2006 publication, Catalogue, with a full creative retrospective of everything visual produced by PSB with their designers, Farrow, in the 20 years since then. Volume is therefore the complete visual record of Pet Shop Boys from 1984 to 2024.

The 592-page book includes PSB’s entire visual output in chronological order including sleeve artworks, video stills, film and performance images, stage sets and costumes, photoshoots, publications, merchandise and more. It also features photographs, designs and productions by celebrated collaborators including Farrow Design, Eric Watson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Zaha Hadid, Derek Jarman, Es Devlin and Tom Scutt which are accompanied by short commentaries and captions by writer and long-term PSB collaborator Chris Heath and comments from Pet Shop Boys and Farrow, plus the original 2006 text by author Philip Hoare.

The book also features a new conversation between PSB and Chris Heath, a new introduction by art and design historian Libby Sellers and a foreword by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller. The book will be published on April 7th, 2026 and is available to pre-order now in both a standard hardback edition and a signed and numbered limited edition presented in a slipcase.