The Killers mention PSB + Being Boring in Observer Magazine.

[Tom Angel]

I haven't got a scanner but I'll transcribe-

Neil Tennant , PSB and perceptive analyst of pop culture was excited. But he was also concerned. "When I see someone like Brandon Flowers who has the appetite, and possibly the talent and looks, to be a star, I find that enthralling,' Tennant said recently of the Killer's singer. "I'm worried though-and I hope he reads this-that's he's grown a beard. It means he's saying 'I'm not pop. I mean more than that.'
When i tell him this, Flowers is mightlily amused. ......He was an anglophile with a burning love for New order, the Smiths and PSB. The lyric that meant most to him above all else was from the latters 'being boring' 'I never dreamt that I would get to be/the creature that I always meant to be,'

Then later,

"He's a smart man NeiLTennant is....But their mentors shouldn't be alarmed, "we haven't lost our pop sensibility, he'll be proud of (new song) Read My Mind.'


Good little article actually.

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FanQ

[Leeds City Boy]

"He's a smart man NeiLTennant is....But their mentors shouldn't be alarmed, "we haven't lost our pop sensibility, he'll be proud of (new song) Read My Mind.'

Indeed, it borrows VERY heavily from Being Boring.