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On 7 September 1987 the "Actually" LP is released. The title was simply a word they say an awful lot. "We were thinking of calling it 'Jollysight', actually," said Chris at the time, "which was the name of a hotel we saw in Italy-so that, when people asked why, we could say because 'it's a jolly sight better then the last one'…"
One more chance
What have I done to deserve this?
Shopping
Rent
Hit music
It couldn't happen here
It's a sin
I want to wake up
Heart
King's Cross
"Format" is released and Neil and Chris talk about the new b-sides album on a special website.
Order "Format" now and you could win a Fundamentally fabulous jacket.
To Sadler's Wells in the spring.
Pandemonium returns for a New Year party in Australia.
Seasonal greetings to you all.
1988: After the Boys help pay for an anti-Clause 28 newspaper ad, a spokesman tells the Daily Mirror that 'they support a variety of causes.'
2000: The Boys perform in Berlin.
2005: Neil finishes recording vocals for 'Fugitive.'
2007: The Pet Shop Boys had been nominated for two Grammy Awards—Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Dance Single—but lose out to Madonna and Justin Timberlake, respectively.
2008: Chris appears as a witness at St. Pancras Coroner's Court in London during the inquest into the death of PSB friend and assistant Dainton Connell in a automobile accident the previous October in Moscow. He testifies how he'd seen Dainton only shortly before the accident at a dinner celebrating his (Chris's) birthday.
2009: Despite the fact that he's suffering from a nasty bout of either food poisoning or stomach flu, Neil is interviewed via telephone for a radio show on various subjects, including the upcoming new album Yes, the Brits Awards, and submitting a song shortly before Christmas to Shirley Bassey, who's in the process of recording a new album of her own.