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Neil Tennant

"When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s."

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"When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s."

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"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage."
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