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This Week's Guest:
Neil Tennant
4 February 2007
Repeated
9 February 2007 |
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Neil's Choice |
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Photo by Jason Bell
Kirsty Young's castaway this is the singer and songwriter Neil Tennant.
He is best known as one half of The Pet Shop Boys which, over the past 20 years, has been one of Britain's most successful and popular bands, noted for combining dance music with witty lyrics and delivering them in a uniquely English style.
As a teenager growing up in Newcastle he felt himself to be an outsider at school - but found friends in an amateur theatre company. Yet he always felt his life would be different to theirs and used to tell them that he would become a celebrated pop star.
But Neil was 30 when he finally left his day job as a writer for Smash Hits magazine to pursue the musical interests that had dominated his life since was a teenager. By that time, he was anxious that he had missed the boat. Now, as well as continuing to release records with The Pet Shop Boys he has branched out into other forms of composition; writing a live score for the film Battleship Potemkin, a West End musical and being involved in collaborations with Robbie Williams and the Scissor Sisters among many others. |
1.Why Can’t the English?
Performer Rex Harrison
Composer Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
CD Title My Fair Lady: Original Soundtrack
Track 2
Label CBS
Rec No:CD70000
2. She Loves You
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon/McCartney
CD Title Past Masters Vol 1
Track 4
Label Parlophone
Rec No:CDP7900432
3. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Performer Sinfonia of London conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Composer Vaughan Williams
CD Title Barbirolli conducts English String Music
Track 7
Label EMI
Rec No:CDC7475372
4. Changes
Performer David Bowie
Composer David Bowie
CD Title Best of Bowie
Track Cd1 trk 4
Label EMI
Rec No:5398212
5.Give Me Tonight
Performer Shannon
Composer Barbosa/Chisolm
CD Title Shannon: The Collection
Track 3
Label Castle
Rec No:CCSCD 394
6 Good Morning Heartache
Performer Billie Holiday
Composer Higginbotham/Drake/Fisher
CD Title Billie Holiday: Golden Greats
Track 7
Label MCA DMCM
Rec No:5011
7.I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore
Performer Dusty Springfield
Composer Randy Newman
CD Title Dusty in Memphis
Track 4
Label Rhino
Rec No:R271035
8.The 1st movement of Symphony No 5 in D Minor
Performer New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Composer Shostakovich
CD Title Shostakovich:Symphonies No s 5 & 9
Track 1
Label Sony Classical
Rec No:SMK47615
Record: I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore
Book: The Human Comedy by Honore De Balzac
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