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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. [208] [209] Tennant has said that he does not want to be defined by his sexuality [210] or be labeled as a 'gay pop star' out of concern that it would dominate coverage of the Pet Shop Boys ...
“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 ...
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.
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 ...
Although the music was written with their first album in mind — and before their involvement with Neil Tennant [25] — "Getting Away with It" was not included on Electronic's first LP in May 1991 (a reflection of their confidence in the newer material), although it was slotted in between tracks 4 and 5 on the international versions and the ...
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." [2]
Tennant told Corden he gained inspiration for his stage moniker by flipping through a music magazine and is “sort-of named” after Neil Tennant of the British music group Pet Shop Boys. David ...