NEIL TENNANT - 'WORD IN YOUR EAR' PODCAST (2)

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  • Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
  • Part 2 of Neil's chat with Mark Ellen and David Hepworth.
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    Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
    Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though he was a bit self-conscious about “the one with the rap on it”. He’s always had a journalistic capacity for story-telling, remembering everything in famously entertaining detail, and we had so much material from this reunion we turned it into a two-part podcast. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find in this second half ...
    … “every group has to have an angle”.
    … pop’s current obsession with identity.
    … why Bronski Beat were so significant.
    … David Bowie’s scathing one-word reviews of Michael Jackson and Oasis at the Brits.
    … “the whole world of pop songs is a giant ever-expanding artwork”.
    … meeting Frida from Abba, “a song waiting to happen”.
    … the ‘Pits & Perverts’ gay benefit for the miners in 1984.
    … London clubs in the early ‘80s - “we had a competition to see who could wear the highest heels”.
    … how everyone at Smash Hits thought Michael Jackson’s Thriller was “a damp squib”.
    … recording West End Girls.
    … first hearing a 12-inch single.
    … appearing on Soul Train with Don Cornelius - “like being on a different planet”.
    … why Dusty Springfield gave Jerry Wexler a nervous breakdown.
    … seeing the last Ziggy Stardust show.
    … meeting Steven Spielberg, Micky Dolenz and Joni Mitchell.
    … and Boy George's gag about George Michael.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 6

  • @themoon9442
    @themoon9442 3 місяці тому +4

    8:50 I remember Boy George filling in one of those end-of-year questionnaires at Xmas 1984. One of the questions was, "Tell us your biggest showbiz secret" George replied, "George Michael is a heterosexual".

  • @kjogorman3472
    @kjogorman3472 2 місяці тому +2

    Yes!! an Aussie tour! Very welcome

  • @spookydirt
    @spookydirt 2 місяці тому +1

    that was excellent. you should definitely bring this guest back

  • @cdpetee
    @cdpetee 2 місяці тому +2

    Boy George outed George Michael in the Band Aid behind the scenes video, "Who was that?" (Midge Ure: "George Michael.") "God it sounded CAMP. But then he IS." Seventeen year old me screamed, LOL!

  • @SuperMax_____0.0_____
    @SuperMax_____0.0_____ 3 місяці тому +3

    thanks for this, too bad they recorded in the bathroom or a cathedral....

  • @MACEASY2
    @MACEASY2 3 місяці тому +3

    Part two of a recording made in a tin can at the bottom of a canyon. Good luck to sticking with deciphering it.