I think we’ve come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain. Neil Tennant Read Quote
When I was I younger I didn’t want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn’t want to be a clone. Now this was in the late ’70s. Neil Tennant Read Quote
I think there’s an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough. Neil Tennant Read Quote
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. Neil Tennant Read Quote
The first song is called ‘London.’ It’s about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. Neil Tennant Read Quote
She’s been a smack addict, she’s had big success in Europe in the ’70s, and she’s lost everything. She’s been rediscovered in the ’80s, and as we meet her she’s just about to sign a new recording contract. Neil Tennant Read Quote
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he’s known as Straight Dave by the bar staff – and no one believes he’s as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her. Neil Tennant Read Quote
For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn’t get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work. Neil Tennant Read Quote
We decided we didn’t want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane. Neil Tennant Read Quote
It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows. Neil Tennant Read Quote
