English singer, musician and songwriter, vocalist for the Pet Shop Boys, and occasional guitar and synthesizer player.
A graduate of North London Polytechnic in 1975, he worked for 2 years as an editor at Marvel Comics, the UK arm of Marvel UK, the world's largest comic book publisher. His job was to smooth American profanity down to decent English, and to blur out the overly explicit parts of the comic book characters, as well as the interviews with music celebrities that were printed alongside the comics. 1980s. In the 1980s, such comics were extremely popular with stars. Tennant took interviews from Linda and Paul McCartney, "T. Rex singer Marc Bolan and others.
In 1977, he joined Macdonald Educational Publishing and later ITV Books, where he edited books.
In 1982, he landed a job as news editor at one of the most popular Did. He worked as news editor for Smash Hits, a British music magazine, where he later became deputy editor for several years. "During that time I met famous musicians - Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood - and saw the birth of hip-hop. I remember a great group of colleagues," says Tennant about that period. It was through his work at Smash Hits magazine that Neil Tennant met the Pet Shop Boys' first producer, Bobby O' (Bobby Orlando), a famous US dance music producer, and it was through him that the early PSB singles were recorded.
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Tennant's experience as a music journalist and his knowledge of the rules of show business came in very handy for Tennant, who had previously covered music celebrities and was now one of them himself. Tennant founded the Pet Shop Boys in 1981 with his colleague Chris Lowe and has continued to this day. In the nearly 30 years of the band's existence, there have been no arguments between them, no rumours of a break-up. "We are pretentious and proud. After all, the Pet Shop Boys are the last of the 90s. Synthesizer duo" - the last synth duo of the 1990s.
Having set up a recording studio in his home, Tennant produces some of his songs there. The band is divided into roles, with Chris usually writing the music and Neil writing the lyrics to the music Chris has written. According to Neil, Chris is inspired by dance music and Neil by the sound of electronic music. His favourite PSB song is the hit "Being Boring".
Music critics unanimously agree that Neil Tennant's vocals are specific, one of the most unique in the world of music, and easily recognisable on every record. 2006 m., after the release of the Pet Shop Boys' album Fundamental, they noted that the singer's voice has not changed in the slightest - it is as "fresh" as it was at the start of his career 25 years ago.
Some critics sometimes accuse the band's work of being too ironic, but Neil Tennant disagrees: "Chris is the one who's really ironic, and I'm just being very sentimental."
Nearly 3 decades into the successful career of the Pet Shop Boys, Neil says: "We're not going to quit yet. At least Chris and I haven't talked about it. Sometimes when I get tired on the road, I think it's time to go, but I stay home and die of boredom."