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 Lowe’s London flat is the subject of a nine-page photo spread and article in the current issue of Elle magazine.
The Boys perform in Sheffield, U.K.
2007: Neil and Chris appear live with DJ Fat Tony at Abbey Road Studios as part of the Fashion DJs radio broadcast. Six records of their own choice are played during their part of the program, perhaps the most surprising being a Cass Elliot track from 1969, ‘It’s Getting Better.’
They perform at the Oxegen Festival in County Kildare, Ireland.
Although they continue to work on ‘Brick England,’ the Boys also start on a new track, ‘Groovy.’