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

The synthpop maestro used lockdown to revisit folk songs he'd written in the 1970s, inspired by whichever chord he'd learned that day

Lockdown stimulated all kinds of unexpected creative urges. For Neil Tennant, of synthpop masterminds Pet Shop Boys, the outcome was a collection of folk songs.

During lockdown I started recording songs I'd written in the 70s," he said, in an interview for BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life. And they were on the guitar."