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Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87
Bond worked on avant garde films with Jane Arden in the 1960s and 70s and went on to work with 80s pop stars from Neil Tennant to Adam Ant
Jack Bond, a British film-maker who worked on a string of avant garde films in the 1960s and 70s with Jane Arden, and went on to collaborate with the Pet Shop Boys and Adam Ant, has died aged 87. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/AlamyBond returned to TV in the early 80s, producing and directing numerous episodes of The South Bank Show, about subjects including Werner Herzog, Patricia Highsmith and the Nederlands Dans Theater. One particular episode about Roald Dahl caught the attention of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys, who were looking for a director to make a longform film collating their hit songs.
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