#Neil my beloved 💗 ... here's to you!!!

[crushondonald]

NEIL TENNANT

b. 10 July 1954

"Writing songs - or lyrics for songs - has been a habit, pastime and an instinct for me since I was about nine years old, before I could play any musical instrument. I grew up in the era of the Beatles and their contemporaries, and loved pop music and the endless stream of thrilling new songs which accompanied my childhood and adolescence."

Modern history is full of examples of the solution being worse than the problem. For instance: Tsarism is the problem, Stalinism the solution; communism in Asia is perceived as a problem to which the Vietnam War is intended to provide the solution; the European Union is a problem, Brexit the solution. This lyric ['Twentieth Century', 2005] then takes the lesson learned from history and applies it to a personal relationship: 'Let's stay together'.

(Excerpt from One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil Tennant, 2018)

Tonight we're going to a dream world, our world. A world of music and memory in which West End girls dance dominoes with boys from New York City. Che Guevara and Claude Debussy are easily led behind a bicycle shed but then make it so hard ... In Dreamworld, being boring is a sin, the music plays forever and the streets have no name ... Here we go!

Thank you Neil and Chris ♡ ... for PSB's terrific & immortal HIT MUSIC energizing me for almost 40 years now ~ I'll always be one of THE POP KIDS! ☆

"I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture."

Happy Birthday Neil!

... I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing! 💖