After completing a degree in history at the Polytechnic of North London, Neil takes a job at Marvel Comics, anglicizing spellings and indicating where over-risque woman needed to be redrawn decently. While there he interviews comic fan Marc Bolan, who politely points out that his tape recorder wasn’t working. In 1977 he works at Macdonald Educational Publishing, later moving to ITV Books. In June 1982, he joins Smash Hits.
Chris and Neil rehearse in Manchester for their upcoming shows in Los Angeles with Electronic.
They begin a week of filling in for Simon Bates on his Radio 1 show.
They meet Miyuki Motegi (who had already recorded and released their song ‘All or Nothing’) at the Fuji Rock Festival.
Neil and Chris work in the studio on ‘Minimal’ and ‘The Sodom and Gomorrah Show.’
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Newmarket Racecourse in Suffolk, U.K.
Today they’re in Munich. Working in Chris’s hotel room, they make changes to the chorus of the song ‘Listening.’ Chris also composes a track that will much later serve as the basis for ‘The Pop Kids.’
They appear in concert this evening in Rättvik, Sweden.
The third date of the Boys’ four-night stand at the Royal Opera House in London.
On a bit of a break following the conclusion of the 2022 leg of the Boys’ Dreamworld Tour, Neil attends a performance this evening by Martha Wainwright and her band at Cadogan Hall in the Chelsea district of London.