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West End Girls is de eerste single van de Pet Shop Boys. Het was het eerste nummer dat Neil Tennant en Chris Lowe ooit op plaat uitbrachten. Het was bovendien hun eerste wereldwijde hit. Het is een synthpopnummer, met een vorm van rap. De tekst is gebaseerd op een gedicht van T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land.

"West End Girls" is a song by the English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song's lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life in London which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.

The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records' Bobcat Records imprint in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please. In October 1985, the new version was released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.

In 1987, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards, and Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2005, 20 years after its release, the song was awarded Song of The Decade between 1985 and 1994 by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. A critic's poll in 2020 by The Guardian selected "West End Girls" as the greatest UK number-one single.

The song was performed by the Pet Shop Boys at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.