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The loss… was friends dying during the AIDS crisis… For almost ten years, 1985–1994, I always knew someone who was wasting away with the disease. I miss the friends who died. Because of living through it, I wrote song lyrics about the experience.
Yes continues the Pet Shop Boys' tradition of having one-word titles for albums, such as Please, Bilingual, and the more recent Fundamental. The convention just developed and became a style that the duo decided to keep, Tennant said. 'It's like e.e. cummings not having any capital letters -- it's a signature thing,' Tennant said.
I can't see any reason to define gay people by their sexuality... And I think when people say the word 'gay', maybe less than they used to, but there's a whole load of cultural assumptions come with that which I find pretty irritating, and sometimes patronising.
And, in the '80s I thought that to be an out gay would simply dominate the agenda of the Pet Shop Boys. I think it's fair to say that after that, maybe it did dominate the agenda of the Pet Shop Boys, to a certain extent, that you'd become 'gay pop star Neil Tennant'.
In 2000 Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe visited Glastonbury for the first time, proved an unexpected success on the Pyramid Stage, and left Worthy Farm triumphant.
Does he wish, like Olly Alexander and Troye Sivan today, he had written unabashedly gay songs filled with male pronouns? 'In the 80s and the 90s, for that matter, it was such a big deal, being gay... You knew your audience had a lot of women or girls in it, so you wanted to include everyone. I still sort of think that when I'm writing, to be honest'.
Yes continues the Pet Shop Boys' tradition of having one-word titles for albums, such as Please, Bilingual, and the more recent Fundamental. The convention just developed and became a style that the duo decided to keep, Tennant said. 'It's like e.e. cummings not having any capital letters -- it's a signature thing,' Tennant said.
