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October 24, 2018
Neil Tennant's One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
"On one level their first No 1 hit West End Girls was about the seedy glamour of a night out in London, but Tennant also slid in a reference to Edmund Wilson’s To the Finland Station, a history of socialism from the French revolution to Lenin’s arrival in St Petersburg. As if slightly embarrassed by this erudition – the Pet Shop Boys were always militantly pop (modern, glamorous, artificial) as opposed to rock (raw, traditional, authentic) – they never used to print their lyrics on their album sleeves. 'We probably had some ideological point about it that we lost interest in,' says Tennant. 'I wonder if we thought it was rock or something. You see that whole thing went away … because rock lost.' He hoots with laughter."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 24, 2018 07:38 AM