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.
The Pet Shop Boys announce plans for a summer tour of the U.S. as headliners of the ill-fated ‘Wotapalava’ music festival.
The Boys perform in Denver, Colorado.
They appear on the German television show TV Total, performing ‘I’m with Stupid.’
The Fundamental Tour comes to Brighton, U.K.
The third non-consecutive night of PSB opening for Take That in Sunderland.
Neil and Chris note on their website that they’re currently in Russia ‘doing press for the new album’ Electric and preparing for their upcoming concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow—the first dates on the European leg of their Electric Tour.