Neil Tennant
Neil Tennant was born in North Shields, England, United Kingdom on July 10th, 1954 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 69, Neil Tennant biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English musician, singer, guitarist, music journalist, and co-founder of the synthpop group Pet Shop Boys, which formed with Chris Lowe in 1981.
He served as a writer for Smash Hits and as an assistant editor for the magazine for a period in the mid-1980s.
Personal life
In a 1994 interview with Attitude magazine, Tennant confessed to being gay, revealing his sexuality. Otherwise, he remains quiet about his personal and intimate life, preferring to be a "man of mystery," as he describes it. He has a house in London and another in County Durham in the North East countryside. He and Lowe now have an apartment in Berlin.
Tennant is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Tennant was included in a list of the top private contributors to the Labour Party in 1998. However, he voted for the Liberal Democrats in the 2005 general election, citing disillusion with Labour's ID card scheme. The Pet Shop Boys have accepted personal appeals from former London Mayor Boris Johnson and then-Prime Minister David Cameron, both leading Conservative Party politicians, for the group to participate in the "winners' parade" which took place shortly after the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. Tennant pleaded with Cameron's employees, who subsequently texted Cameron's staff encouraging him to use gay scientist Alan Turing's centennial year as an invitation for the UK Government to officially pardon Turing. In fact, the formal pardon did not go through on December 24, 2013 with the necessary official paperwork signed by Queen Elizabeth II.
As protest songs successfully mixing politics and pop music, Tennant has lauded The Specials and singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, focusing on "Ghost Town" and "Shipbuilding" as protest songs successfully bringing politics into pop music.
He has sluggishly criticized ageism in the music industry, saying in 2013 that radio executives will inform him that they want to perform Pet Shop Boys songs on the radio, but not because the pair, who were then in their fifties, are "too old."
When joining Equity, actor David Tennant took his stage name from Tennant as another actor was already registered with his real name (David McDonald).