Neil plays in a group in Newcastle called Dust: Their most popular song is a preposterous affair he has written called “Can you hear the dawn break?”. They are heavily influenced by The Incredible String Band. “We were convinced we would become terribly famous. It was a very kind of stoned seventies but we used to think it was absolutely brilliant at the time”.
The Pet Shop Boys appear this morning as musical guests on the BBC television show Going Live! This same day, ‘Always on My Mind’ hits #1 in the U.K.
The Boys record a guest-DJ stint for Radio One, to be broadcast Christmas Eve.
Chris and Neil attend a Naseem Hamed boxing match in New York City.
At the star-studded London ‘stag party’ for Elton John and David Furnish to celebrate their upcoming civil union ceremony, Neil and Chris perform ‘It’s a Sin,’ followed by the showtune/gay-anthem classic ‘I Am What I Am,’ on which Neil duets with the Scissor Sisters’ frontman Jake Shears.
They wind up their three-date ‘mini-tour’ of South Africa with a concert this evening in Durban.