[Introspective] from telegraph.co.uk

[Derek B Donnell]

50 best duets ever
(Filed: 08/11/2003)

In this special feature, Telegraph critics choose the finest team efforts
from pop history, plus the chance for you to let them know if they got it
right


19 Neil Tennant and Dusty Springfield

What Have I Done to Deserve This?, 1987

Funny to think that, upon hearing of their plans to coax the late Dusty
Springfield out of Californian exile, the Pet Shop Boys' label EMI tried to
persuade the duo to use Tina Turner instead.

Quite how they thought it would have worked is open to question, because
this deceptively bouncy song of lovelorn misery was clearly written for two
of the most idiosyncratic voices in pop. Neil Tennant raps a lugubrious
verse about spilt drinks and wilting flowers, before Dusty floats in with a
raspy whisper stained by life's disappointments.

Key moment: When the clang of what sounds like overheating industrial
equipment gives way to a change of key and Dusty's soaring "Since you went
away."