Neil Tennant

ActorWriterSoundCrewComposer Jul 10 (age 71) North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK 1977–2024 (47 year career)

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Biography

Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and music journalist, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He was a journalist for Smash Hits, and assistant editor for the magazine in the mid-1980s. Tennant coined the phrase imperial phase to describe the period in which a musical artist is regarded to be at their commercial and creative peak simultaneously. This observation was initially self-referential, made…

Known For

Film

Firebird

Thanks

Film

Live 8

Self - Pet Shop Boys

Film

Synth Britannia

Self

Film

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped

Self

Film

It Couldn't Happen Here

Self

Film

New Order Story

Self

Film

The Graham Norton Show

Self - Pet Shop Boys

Film

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Self - Interviewee

Filmography

Acting (50)

Movies (39)

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped

2024

as Self

6.6

Pet Shop Boys: A New Bohemia

2024

9.0

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

2024

as Self - Interviewee

8.3

Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live at the Royal Arena Copenhagen

2024

as Self

7.8

Radio 2 in the Park: Pet Shop Boys

2024

as Self

7.0

60 Songs: BBC Two at 60

2024

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

The World According to Allee Willis

2024

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys - Live Isle Of Wight 2024

2024

Pet Shop Boys: Live @ Primavera Sound 2023

2023

as Self

Pet Shop Boys Smash The Videos 1985 - 2020

2023

as Self

9.5

Pet Shop Boys at the BBC

2023

as Self

6.0

Discovery: Live in Rio 1994

2021

as Self

7.0

Pet Shop Boys - BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park

2019

as Self

7.0

Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum 2018

2019

as Self

10.0

Pet Shop Boys: Rock in Rio 2017

2017

as Self

Pet Shop Boys: Electric

2014

as Self

Electronic Beats Festival Berlin 2012 - Pet Shop Boys

2012

as Self

Pet Shop Boys: Pandemonium

as Self

Synth Britannia

as Self

Pet Shop Boys: Live at Roskilde Festival 2009

2009

as Self

Pet Shop Boys: Cubism

2007

as Self

6.5

Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop

2006

as Self

6.2

Live 8

2005

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

7.4

Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art - The Videos

2004

as Self

8.5

Back To The 80's - Live In Concert

2004

as Self (archive footage)

Pet Shop Boys: Montage - The Nightlife Tour

2001

as Self

8.5

Oscar

1997

as Self

An Audience with Elton John

1997

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys: Somewhere

1997

as Self

9.0

Suede - Live at the Roundhouse 1996

1996

as Self

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

1995

as Self

6.0

Pet Shop Boys: Discovery (Live in Rio)

as Self

Dusty

as Self

New Order Story

as Self

Projections

as Self

Pet Shop Boys: Performance

1991

as Self

7.7

Pet Shop Boys - Highlights On Tour

1990

as Self

It Couldn't Happen Here

1988

as Self

5.8

Pet Shop Boys: Television

1986

as Self (archive footage)

Television (11)

London 2012 Olympic Games

2012

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

Kate Garraway's Life Stories

2009

as Self

5.9

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

7.2

Parkinson

1998

as Self

MTV Europe Music Awards

1994

as Self - Pet Shop Boys - Performer

10.0

Sacrée Soirée

1987

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

5.1

MTV Video Music Awards

1984

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

7.8

Champs-Elysées

1982

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

6.3

An Audience with...

1978

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

5.3

The BRIT Awards

1977

as Self

10.0

BBC Radio 2 Piano Room

as Self - Pet Shop Boys

7.0

Crew (8)

Movies (8)

Pet Shop Boys: A New Bohemia

2024

Writer

9.0

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

2024

Songs

8.3

Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live at the Royal Arena Copenhagen

Music

Firebird

Thanks

Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art - The Videos

2004

Music

8.5

An Audience with Elton John

1997

Music Arranger

Projections

1993

Songs

It Couldn't Happen Here

1988

Original Music Composer

5.8