Journalist, artist, songwriter, singer, musician, gentleman (no matter the orientation), legend! 🙌🏼

Always a joy to listen to. Neil is a very honest man with no lies or bullshit.

Fascinating and intelligent conversation.

I could listen to him all day,such an intelligent man

Legend and handsome man. In 1991 Pet shop boys play live show in Prague. I was there.

Still touring 15 years on

Neil is so lovely to listen to. Yes irony and humour, something completely foreign to today's generation!

What a charming man. Great interview.

Next time they come to Australia I’m going , don’t care how much it costs, I’m 500 kilometres from a major city and I will hitchhike to see them. I never seen them live,

it's time to rethink ageism in the music industry, as good talent shouldn’t be pushed aside for young talent…

Neil Tennant es encantador ❤

Typically brilliant Gavin Esler. 👏👏

Its amazing that so many bands continue on after their light has dimmed, while fans grow bored and often cringe, wishing theywould just stop, but PSBs have just grown and matured in such an intelligent and graceful way.

I think that there's parallels to be had about Neil and Chris' idea of what touring and playing live should entail and the late great Freddie Mercury who always saw himself as a performer in that they want to make their live performances really something special.

Heart of an artist, mind of a journalist.

loved them since the 80's :) the English accent is why we love them, never change! 😍

Love Neil, he’s such a clever guy -being an ex-journalist he knows the business so well..

Yeah, I actually considered going to see them in Chicago as part of their Unity tour with New Order, but then I quickly found out that the average ticket price was $400 for the cheap seats, and as high as $2500 for decent seats. I just as quickly changed my mind. I'm a huge fan of both bands, but those prices are crazy.

Great interview. He is just as intelligent, well-spoken, and unpretentious as I had imagined. Pet Shop Boys' most recent albums have mostly chucked the melancholic songs in favor of "bangers" but this is a band that has done so many of those types of songs already and they all get the multiple remix treatment. That whole synth-heavy sound with a 4/4 beat is starting to sound a wee bit dated, even to people like me who loved it and danced to it at the clubs. I happen to quite like their moodier songs like "Luna Park" and "King's Cross" and "Being Boring". It's okay to let the disco ball stop spinning for awhile. Every song need not be "It's a Sin " or "New York City Boy". The track "Invisible" from their Elysium album is as poignant a commentary on aging as any I have ever heard and the arrangement is sublime.

Loved Neil in the 80s; Love him, STILL!

Neil is lovely

Good interview. He took it one step deeper than the run of the mill interview

Loved the Pet Shop Boys from the 80s. Their music has always been such quality and vastly underrated. Neil is so intelligent and comes across so well. Great interview.

PSB best band ever

I like Hard Talk but it's Hard...So Hard

Love the Pet Shop Boys. I've just discovered these guys; they are brilliant.

Perfect accent 😍😍 his so cool

Have watched them live twice. They are incredible musical geniuses and always having something new to offer. They have been around forever since the 80s and still going strong. New album is coming from what I read!!

Neil is still so cute.

Brilliant 👍

Pet Shop Boys are fantastic, their music is awesome, so many hits they have, its timeless

Clever man

What Gavin Esler is saying is right, that Neil Tennant does seem to really enjoy coming on programmes like Hard Talk and debating but I think it's the opportunity to make himself heard and to put his own views across because he's clearly someone who is very intelligent and well educated. I know that Neil is big supporter of the UK Labour Party, like Hugh Grant, Ross Kemp and Eddie Izzard.

I mean... He seems clever... Outside his music... And we not singing philosophy... He knows his kitchen... Without onions. Even... I just go back to listening interview... Thx

I agree regarding the gay labeling, it's not so cut and dry. I am a "gay" man, but often find myself explaining away the actual label. I am just a man who happens to be attracted to other men, primarily. I am just me. ☮️❤️✌️

Love from Paris ( France)

That gig in Rio, where Neil dressed as the pope was legendary

Pet shop boys were always on my mind hehe

And to think I was going to watch only for a couple of minutes.

I had no idea about hard talk extra,I love hard talk!But somehow I missed it on BBC!Thanks for sharing!❤️

Very lucid and open interview

Thanks for sharing, that's interesting.

Great interview!

Madness were the first group to use back projection films to accompany songs on their 1983 tour.

Great Various Interview within 25 minutes. Hard Talk always seems longer though! Proper stuff/ vid' Respected.👍. Not thought' West End Girls as Hip-Hop! Props story why too)

"Are you hard?" "Yes..." "Let's talk about it."

Neil keeps it nice and highbrow: eg - 'From Lake Geneva..' (the journey of Vladimir Lenin in the sealed train to Finland), & 'What have I done to deserve this?' (thought to be a ref. to Christopher Isherwood's 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' - a book set in Weimar Germany). Great pop music too!

There is a dark side to these that I always picked up on

The first nortth star.

I meant... Because onions can make you cry... Other, wise they do have onions..

The presenter looks like the TV news reporter in Little Britain who was interviewing Tony Head, anyone?

I think I just heard an album title in this interview--- Pet Shop Boys Coalition--

Loved this interview, but West End Girls was not the first rap song in America. That's preposterous. What Neil means is the first #1 on the pop charts back when #1s were sold and engineered by drunk, druggy record company executives. It was a wild time. I say this as a PSB Superfan. Blondie and Debbie Harry did rap 5 years before WEG. In the long run, who cares?

I get terrible feeling to kiss Neil when I watch the se

Neil Tennant looks like Prince Andrew.

Neil is a music nerd

:)

The best were no1 and The Nightlife. All other shows went terribly pop, yet commercially great.

And there is more onions. So i go shut.

Not much "hard talk" here. Softball questions. Would have liked some questions related to his Christian upbringing and his feelings about his church.

14:26 - so scared look speaking about Moscow banning gay prides)) But I liked his thoughts flow.. 14:32 Iran hang two gay boys.. 14:57 - about Putin and homofobia

British.....

pierce bronsan died no more james bond and it all gone floollllow yellow brick rooad or that one colour

The song “I’m with Stupid”, after all... Blair and Bush were not that bad politicians when you compare to Trump. I think PSB should make a song about Trump.

OMG What ridiculous interview. Loved them (PSB) when they were global popstars. Nowdays they are only lgbt activists. Sad...

So lovely love you Psb s 🩵💙my ❤️ starts missing a beat ❤️

Had a lot of offers from women haha love you Neil can quite believe it 🩵

British.....