Pet Shop Boys celebrate 40 years in show business with Nonetheless, a pure pop album packed with earworms
- Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are celebrating 40 years in pop music, and their 15th studio album, Nonetheless, is packed with well-crafted, catchy tunes
- Tennant and Lowe talk about how age and experience have enhanced their skills and how they are at the ‘peak of their songwriting powers’
You may not recognise Pet Shop Boys if you see them in civilian dress.
Arriving for an interview at their record company’s offices in West London to discuss their new album, singer Neil Tennant, 69, is dressed smartly, almost posh, while his colleague and keyboardist Chris Lowe, 64, appears in a washed-out hoodie.
“He did not dress up,” says Tennant with a grin about his colleague, who – unlike in photos and at concerts – is not wearing his sunglasses.
Pet Shop Boys are in the best of spirits – and it is no wonder. After around 40 years in the business, the British duo is as popular as ever. Their Dreamworld tour is filling large concert halls everywhere. The tour will wind up in June with five already sold-out concerts in the Royal Opera House, in London.
Now, their 15th studio album – Nonetheless – has been released.
