Pet Shop Boys criticise Live Earth (uneasy about the 'Al Gore Thing')

nme via Drudge Report ^ | May 25, 2007 | Not specified

[RDTF]

Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant has spoken out against this summer's Live Earth concerts.

Tennant has also hit out against Bono for his politically active role.

He said: "The Princess Diana concert is fair enough, but I feel more uneasy about the Al Gore thing.

"I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't - it looks arrogant.

"It's not as if they have a private source of information. To state the obvious as if you are the only person that knows it is intellectually weak."

Of the U2 frontman he told Yahoo: "Bono uses his celebrity but in doing so he increases his celebrity.

"I've never even totally convinced that the rest of U2 feel comfortable with that."

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[buccaneer81]

I love this guy! (I mean, not in THAT way, but... you know)

I admire his views. He must be a Log Cabin Tory.

[Moonman62]

Too bad I don’t know one song from them. I remember Sam Kinnisson had something to say about them, though. Maybe he was wrong.

[buccaneer81]

Too bad I don’t know one song from them.

West End Girls 1985. Pretty big hit. Cool video.

[wardaddy]

West End Girls was a nice witty 80s hit for them..

[Generic_Login_1787]

Well, Mr. Tennant isn’t shy about using his celebrity to promote his confused Marxism, but it’s hard to argue with his words.

[sushiman]

They had a string a hits from the mid 80’s thru the 90’s : West End Girls ; Suburbia ; It’s a Sin ; What Have I Done To Deserve This ; Go West ; Domino Dancing ; and more . Probably bigger in Europe than the USA .

[Munson]

He’s lib-dem, but he’s wiser than most of the left leaning celebrities.

He actually wrote a song called “How Can You Expect to be taken seriously” in 1990 about how celebrities trivialize serious issues like the rain forest and the ozone layer.

[rintense]

The Pet Shop Boys are on of the best things out of England in a long time. Became a fan of theirs in high school... still am a fan.

Neil is spot on.

[Clemenza]

Welcome to the dark side, Neil! Now maybe you can get your "homies" in Erasure to join the fold, and my two favorite synth-pop bands from the 80s can hold an anti-Gore concert.

I've always admired their decision to turn the holier-than-though Bono's "Where the Streets Have No Name" into the campy Gay disco song that it always should have been, even adding Franki Valli into the mix!

[wardaddy]

I was living for a time in London’s west end and that song was so appropriate.

snooty gals

[buccaneer81]

Now maybe you can get your "homies" in Erasure to join the fold,

Damn...LOL! I have Erasure's greatest hits CD. I thought I was the only one.

[Clemenza]

Howwwww can IIIII ex-plain!!! ;-)

[RDTF]

they’re great! I never cared much for the Pet Shop Boys sound tho

[Clemenza]

All I can remember about the West End were all the Middle Eastern embassies on the block where I was staying. Met more ladies the next week when I was in Switzerland and Italy. Of course, I was a young and precocious lad of 15 at the time.

[buccaneer81]

Howwwww can IIIII ex-plain!!! ;-)

Cover me, cover me, hold me...!!!

LOL!

[wardaddy]

this woulda been 1985

I was at Tottenham Court and Hampstead Lane....sorta NW London

Tramps, Stringfellows days

chesty Brit babes...it twas not too bad..lol

[Paleo Conservative]

Another stopped clock moment.

[windsorknot]

The “Al Gore Thing”: ManBearPig.

[Lancey Howard]

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." - - Alice Cooper