Skip to navigation Skip to content

History

1970 — 1971

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”.

On this day

1988

The Pet Shop Boys record ‘What Keeps Mankind Alive?’ for a BBC Radio One show commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the first performance of Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera.

1999

The Boys headline at the Creamfields dance music festival near Liverpool.