1982
The new issue of Smash Hits features Neil’s interview with Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet of Yazoo.
2006
‘I’m with Stupid,’ the first single from the upcoming PSB album Fundamental, is released. On the same day, the Pet Shop Boys (with guest vocalists Robbie Williams, Rufus Wainwright, and Frances Barber) perform an exclusive concert of both old and new material with the BBC Concert Orchestra. It’s recorded for transmission on BBC Radio 2 later in the month, and it will subsequently appear on CD as Concrete.
2007
The Boys perform in Frankfurt, Germany.
2008
Neil is sick, so Chris works with Pete Gleadall on a remix of the MGMT track ‘Kids.’
2012
After having spent about six weeks in Berlin, the Boys fly back to London.
2013
They fly to Los Angeles, where they will meet with Stuart Price making the finishing touches on Electric.
2014
Chris and Neil are in Dubai today in anticipation of their concert there the following evening. Today they go sightseeing, visiting (among other things) the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa.
2020
Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is being read in daily installments in an online ‘Big Read’ production by the University of Plymouth. Today’s segment, ‘Episode 21,’ is read by Neil Tennant.
2022
Chris and Neil are in Milan, Italy in preparation for the first show, two evenings from now, of their much-delayed Dreamworld Tour.