(EMI)Neil Tennant called his band's late-80s spell of commercial infallibility their "imperial phase". But with a score that often sounds as though John Williams's Stormtroopers are about to march into view, those words seem apt here. The ballet that Tennant and Chris Lowe have scored (a forthcoming Sadler's Wells production) is based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen rather than George Lucas, but ominous melodra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on March 12, 2011