Neil Tennant
Neil Tennant
Neil Francis Tennantis an English musician, singer and songwriter and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He also was a journalist for Smash Hits, and was assistant editor for the magazine for a period in the mid-1980s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth10 July 1954
thinking community world
I think the world should be one community.
gay night heaven
The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
ghetto thinking people
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
should-have issues individuality
To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
people satisfaction paradox
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
boys our-world pet
It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
brain looks lots-of-money
I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money
variety-of-music choices sexuality
We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
thinking long way
I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
musical would-be theater
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
song army two
The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.
real hate moving
We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
character play together
She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.
gay want scared
When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.