Pet Shop Boys: Out Of The Doghouse
Meet Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, respectively the vocal and musical halves of England’s Pet Shop Boys. They’re older than your average British pop sensations (Neil is 31, Chris 26), and they didn’t start their group because they were on the dole with nothing better to do.
Pet Shop Boys: Out Of The Doghouse
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Harold DeMuir
Meet Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, respectively the vocal and musical halves of England’s Pet Shop Boys. They’re older than your average British pop sensations (Neil is 31, Chris 26), and they didn’t start their group because they were on the dole with nothing better to do. In fact, they had respectable careers going prior to entering the music biz. Chris had completed six of the seven years of schooling necessary to become a professional architect, and Neil was an editor
for the mega-successful U.K. pop glossy Smash Hits.
Yup, you read that right. Neil Tennant was one of those frustrated-musician music journalists that rock stars are always complaining about, and which we hacks invariably deny the existence of. “I think there’s quite a lot of truth to the allmusic-journalists-are-frustratedmusicians theory,” he chirps, ruining my day.
Perhaps I should draw some consolation from the fact that the singer was a mere book editor (he’d previously worked in Marvel Comics’ London office) when