From Pet Shop Boy to nostalgic folkie: Neil Tennant plays guitar

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From Pet Shop Boy to nostalgic folkie: Neil Tennant plays guitar
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The synthpop maestro used lockdown to revisit folk songs he’d written in the 1970s, inspired by whichever chord he’d learned that day

Photograph: Lester CohenPhotograph: Lester CohenLockdown stimulated all kinds of unexpected creative urges. For Neil Tennant, of synthpop masterminds“During lockdown I started recording songs I’d written in the 70s,” he said, in an interview for BBC Radio 4’sTennant’s first musical forays came in his teenage years in Newcastle with a folk band called Dust, inspired by the Incredible String Band.

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