In the Night by Pet Shop Boys Song Info
Written by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe Produced by Pet Shop Boys & Phil Harding Engineered by Phil Harding Programmed by Ian Curnow Recorded at PWL Studios, 1985 Released May 1985 on the first release of Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) The B-side of the 1985 release of Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money), "In the Night", is about the subculture known as the Zazous that appeared in France during the German occupation of France in World War II; concerned with fashion and music, and allied with neither the Nazis and Vichy France nor the French Resistance, they were distrusted by both sides. Tennant, having read about the movement in a book by David Pryce-Jones, asks, in the song, the question of whether this apathy essentially amounted to collaborationism. An instrumental version of "In the Night" became the opening theme music of the BBC fashion program The Clothes Show when it first aired in 1986. This continued for a decade until 1995 saw a fully instrumental re-recording of the song, "In the Night '95", for the purpose of replacing the old theme.
