July 1954
Neil Francis Tennant is born on July 10th in North Shields, Northumberland.
History
On this day
2001
Sinead O’Connor gets married, capping a bizarre sequence of events in which she had been slated to take part in the Boys’ ill-fated Wotapalava Festival and then dropped out.
2008: Neil attends the Leeds Festival performances of the Cribs (with guitarist Johnny Marr, who has often played with the band of late) and the Last Shadow Puppets. Afterwards he meets the members of the latter group.
2010
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the V Festival at Hyland Park, Chelmsford, Essex, U.K.
2013
The Electric Tour comes to Beijing, China.
2021
Neil attends this evening’s BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. The program consists of several works by Stravinsky.
2025
A century after the film’s debut and two decades after the release of the Tennant-Lowe score for Battleship Potemkin, the film complete with their score begins playing for the first time in select cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com