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Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant has spoken out against this summer’s Live Earth concerts.

Tennant has also hit out against Bono for his politically active role.

He said: “The Princess Diana concert is fair enough, but I feel more uneasy about the Al Gore thing.

“I’ve always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don’t - it looks arrogant.

“It’s not as if they have a private source of information. To state the obvious as if you are the only person that knows it is intellectually weak.”

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“To state the obvious as if you are the only person that knows it is intellectually weak.”

LOL!  I love this.

Posted by Laurie  on  05/28  at  07:31 PM

And so true, I especially what he says in teh article about these charities being self serving by celebrities seeking to advance theie celebrity.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  05/28  at  07:52 PM

I’m with Tennant. How is it that celebrities think their opinion is more important than mine? Just because THEY are famous, and I’M not? Bullshit.

Someone needs to put this interview in Sheryl Crow’s shit-caked hand.

Posted by Dave Marron  on  05/28  at  11:41 PM

This guy seems very well spoken.  i may need to give his music a listen.

Posted by  on  05/29  at  05:18 AM

They do have a new live DVD that was released this month. Maybe they are attacking celebrities who use charity to advance their celebrity, to advance their own celebrity.

Then again I could just be attacking them b/c I’m a U2 fan

Posted by  on  05/29  at  08:08 AM

Testify,

They were big in the late 80s. Their hits include “West End Girls”, “Suburbia”. “Opportunities”. Neil Tennant also has a group in the 90s called Electronic. They were fairly big for awhile. I like their stuff.

edgeshat,

He was probably being interviewed over the DVD, and this quote came out in the interview. I like U2, but Bono is a media whore. No doubt about it.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  05/29  at  10:23 AM

I concur, I like Bono and I know he means well, but sometimes I wish he’d spend more time on his music.

Also, the Pet Shop Boys did a cover of U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name.

Posted by  on  05/29  at  10:34 AM
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