![]() At the time, he was asked how he felt about “West End Girls” reaching No 1. He was over 30 when the band had their first hit. Another borrows lines from a poem by Anna Akhmatova, one of many Russian cultural and political figures Tennant discusses. “Love Is a Bourgeois Construct” is inspired by David Lodge’s Nice Work. The song “Being Boring” was named after a line in Zelda Fitzgerald’s article Eulogy on the Flapper “Can You Forgive Her?” after an Anthony Trollope novel. “Bibliophile” might describe Tennant himself. The odd “baby” aside, there are few Americanisms instead, the verses are plummy with words such as “touche”, “furthermore”, “fin de siecle”, “impudent”, “impasse” and “bibliophile”. His lyrics are precise, almost fastidious in their use of language, with a hint of the clipped archness of Noël Coward (Tennant co-compiled an album of cover versions of his songs in 1998). Later, in the early 1980s, he was an editor at Smash Hits. (Nor am I alas.) Bifocals be damned though: what a pleasure it is to drift through more than three decades of droll vignettes, metropolitan tristesse and bittersweet generational chronicles.īefore he met his band partner Chris Lowe, Tennant had worked for the UK branch of Marvel comics, where he anglicised spellings and made judgment calls on whether certain drawings of females were too risque for the British. It’s also true they are not getting any younger. His footnote to the 2011 song “Your Early Stuff” reads: “Sometimes people just want to suggest that you’re finished, like the driver who said to me in 2006, ‘I suppose you’re more or less retired now?’, to which I was able to respond, ‘You’re driving me to Top of the Pops!’” It’s true his band still has a large following (including myself). Īs part of the 100 Days Campaign, to remind President Obama of his promise to close Guantanamo bay, Amnesty International held a series of vigils from 11 am to 1 pm, Monday through Friday, at many different venues around Washington D.C., throughout the first 100 days of President Obama's first term of presidency.T here’s a pleasingly defiant comment by Neil Tennant towards the end of his handpicked selection of Pet Shop Boys lyrics. Guitarist Tom Morello, - a long-time supporter of Amnesty International - teamed up with Amnesty's 100 Days Action. President to take during the first 100 days in office. These demands are part of a checklist of actions Amnesty International has asked the new U.S. government in its " war on terror" was set up. To ensure that an independent commission to investigate abuses committed by the U.S. ![]()
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