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Neil Tennant

lines on the record: 53
first: 2007-02-04
most recent: 2007-02-04
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I remember when we first recorded it in New York, playing at a close friend, and he first met me and said, you know, that record could be number one. And I said, yeah, I know what you mean. I said, but it won't be though. But I know what you mean. It's sort of different, doesn't it? I mean, when we've first started writing, Chris and I together, we didn't really imagine we'd have success. We were just doing it because it was a thrill, you know. We did it for the fun of it.”
2007-02-04 · Desert Island Discs · Neil Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we were trying to be ourselves was the idea. In the first half of the eighties, which was a great time for pop music when I worked for a magazine called Smash, it was very much a sort of party and not untold the pops. It was great. But that phase that was coming to an end and we wanted to do something different, something that was more influenced by dance music. Our specific idea was to make dance music with kind of intelligent lyrics. In fact, if you look at the footage now, Chris and Fighter's grooving quite a lot. I just guess at the time it didn't really seem like that.”
2007-02-04 · Desert Island Discs · Neil Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe to the outside world, yes. I became a singer by accident. Ioni was the singer in the Petro Voice because Chris wasn't going to sing. I remember when we first did the video for Western girls, we just did what we normally do, which was I stride ahead and Chris walked slower than me, and I'm slightly taller than Chris. So that kind of image was fixed by that, I think.”
2007-02-04 · Desert Island Discs · Neil Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source