By Mark Jefferies They may be our most successful ever music duo but, in another life, the Pet Shop Boys could have been a one-hit wonder in France with an even dafter name. After a chance meeting in a music shop in 1981, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe bonded over their mutual love of disco and electronica. They made demos together using the name West End before taking inspiration via some pals and changing their name – narrowly sidestepping greater silliness. Chris says: “I was staying with some friends in Ealing [West London] and they had friends who worked in, it wasn’t a pet shop, it was a …