Jon Savage mentions Neil in an interview...
Posted: Fri 13 Apr 2007, 4:16 am
There is an interview with Jon Savage in Issue 18 of Butt Magazine by Alex Needham. He mentions Neil a few times:
Do you talk to Neil Tennant on a daily basis?
No, two weekly? Weekly?
What do you talk about?
The usual pop agenda, Alex. Like whether The Kooks or the Arctic Monkeys are sexy. Robbie Williams. And sometimes more serious things. I’ve been studying a lot of 20th Century history, and Neil particularly likes Russian history, so I’ve been talking about what I’ve been doing with my new book which has been stuff about Nazi Germany and the Twenties. But trivial pop chat, that’s what we like.
How long have you known him?
Since probably ’84. He worked on Smash Hits when I was working on The Face and there was a big friendship between the people on the two magazines.
He immortalised you in the Pet Shop Boys’ Left to My Own Devices.
That’s me, I’m the ‘party animal’. And it’s so funny because in the last six years I haven’t been. I think the life of a writer is a really odd mixture of being the hermit and the party animal. You have these phases where you have to sit in a room for years, and then you have the phases where you go out and say, ‘Hi everybody, remember me?’ Or, ‘You thought I’d gone away, but I’m BACK!’
Do you talk to Neil Tennant on a daily basis?
No, two weekly? Weekly?
What do you talk about?
The usual pop agenda, Alex. Like whether The Kooks or the Arctic Monkeys are sexy. Robbie Williams. And sometimes more serious things. I’ve been studying a lot of 20th Century history, and Neil particularly likes Russian history, so I’ve been talking about what I’ve been doing with my new book which has been stuff about Nazi Germany and the Twenties. But trivial pop chat, that’s what we like.
How long have you known him?
Since probably ’84. He worked on Smash Hits when I was working on The Face and there was a big friendship between the people on the two magazines.
He immortalised you in the Pet Shop Boys’ Left to My Own Devices.
That’s me, I’m the ‘party animal’. And it’s so funny because in the last six years I haven’t been. I think the life of a writer is a really odd mixture of being the hermit and the party animal. You have these phases where you have to sit in a room for years, and then you have the phases where you go out and say, ‘Hi everybody, remember me?’ Or, ‘You thought I’d gone away, but I’m BACK!’
