July 1954
Neil Francis Tennant is born on July 10th in North Shields, Northumberland.
History
On this day
2001
The PSB organization puts out a press notice announcing the upcoming release of the Closer to Heaven original cast album the following October.
2012
The Boys perform for the second day in a row at a festival in Norway—this time at the Rått og Råde Festival in Stavanger.
2014
The Pet Shop Boys appear as guests on this evening’s episode of the long-running BBC Radio drama The Archers. Their storyline concerns their performance at the show’s fictional Loxfest music festival. (The recording session for their appearance had taken place several weeks beforehand.)
2023
Neil presents his favorite songs by The Killers on ‘The Electronic Killers,’ an edition of the BBC website’s Artist Icons Collection. Among others, he plays tracks with distinct PSB connections, including the Brandon Flowers solo song ‘I Can Change’ (which features a sample of Neil’s voice) and one of the Boys’ remixes of ‘Read My Mind.’
- Facts collated by geowayne.com