July 1954
Neil Francis Tennant is born on July 10th in North Shields, Northumberland.
History
On this day
1997
The Boys learn of the death of Princess Diana under very different circumstances. Neil is at home when he turns on the radio and hears the news, while Chris finds out mid-route to Ibiza for vacation.
2003
Chris and Neil visit the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
2009
The issue of The New Yorker bearing this date on its cover includes in its ‘Critic’s Notebook’ section a brief but glowing article by Sasha Frere-Jones promoting the Pet Shop Boys’ upcoming dates at the city’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The writer describes them as an ‘utterly brilliant dance-music duo… [who] are part of a great tradition of slipping intense emotions into an envelope of wit that runs straight from Oscar Wilde to Noel Coward to the Boys.’
2013
‘Love Is a Bourgeois Construct’ is released as a single via digital bundle in Germany and several other countries in continental Europe. (It will be released in the U.K. the following day and several days later in the U.S.)
2014
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Bingley (U.K.) Music Live Festival.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com