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.
A pre-stardom Neil attends a Sex Pistols gig at the Nashville pub in London, during which a fight breaks out. Neil writes about the event in a published letter to NME.
The Boys employ a sample from T.Rex’s ‘Get It On’ as the basis for a new song called ‘A Little Black Dress.’
Release is released in the U.S.
The Pet Shop Boys appear on Top of the Pops, performing ‘I’m with Stupid.’ They don’t know it at the time, but it will prove to be the last of their 58 appearances on the soon-to-be-canceled series.
2008: Neil attends a preview of an exhibition of photography by Linda McCartney at the James Hyman Gallery in London.
Pete Gleadall records Neil’s vocals for a revised version of ‘Love Is a Bourgeois Construct.’
PSB performs at Moogfest 2014 in Asheville, North Carolina.