You know you're getting old when...
...you realise that the godlike genius that is Mr Neil Tennant is (scarily) 70 years old today!!
All hail...
Here are just a few of our favourites from his long and estimable career:
The one that makes me cry:
And finally, the one that started it all:
"You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures."
"An issue I've had is: is it possible to be a pop star without selling sex? And ultimately I think to have mass selling pop music it is not possible to do it without selling sex. That's why I think we're not as successful as I think our music could be."
"We do politics through satire. I think when you get activist pop, that's the problem."
"A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex."
"The first club I ever really went to was this club on Neal Street, in London. It was a gay club – we used to pronounce it ‘Shag-o-ramas’, but it was spelt Chaguramas. It’s the name of a Spanish sheep or something."
"It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world."
Neil Francis Tennant (born 10th July 1954)
