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Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and music journalist, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He was a journalist for Smash Hits , and assistant editor for the magazine in the mid-1980s.
Neil Tennant, who neither denied nor confirmed gay rumours throughout the 1980s, came out in a 1994 interview for Attitude, a UK gay lifestyle magazine. [213] [214] Tennant has said that he does not want to be defined by his sexuality [215] or be labeled as a 'gay pop star' out of concern that it would dominate coverage of the Pet Shop Boys ...
In a 1993 interview with NME, Neil Tennant described "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" as having "no dark underbelly whatsoever". He commented, "It's just a happy song, it's just meant to be a love song.
“I was looking at the chart today and it is all Taylor Swift,” Neil Tennant, one half of the pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, ... April 23, interview with the Tampa Bay Times. “It’s such a ...
In an interview in 1993, Neil Tennant described "Being Boring" as "one of the best songs that we've written", and said that "For me it is a personal song because it's about a friend of mine who died of AIDS, and so it's about our lives when we were teenagers and how we moved to London, and I suppose me becoming successful and him becoming ill." [3]
A legendary pop act opened Strictly Come Dancing’s Blackpool show with a showstopping medley to kick start week nine of the competition.. The Pet Shop Boys dazzled the Blackpool ballroom to open ...
New Order Story is a 1993 documentary about the English band New Order, featuring the majority of their music videos, as well as interviews with the band members, their manager Rob Gretton, producers, etc. It also features appearances from Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, U2's Bono, Quincy Jones and Jon Savage.
"Dreamland" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys featuring English synth-pop band Years & Years. It was released on 11 September 2019 as the lead single from Pet Shop Boys' fourteenth studio album, Hotspot (2020).