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.
Bronski Beat headlines ‘Pits and Perverts,’ an LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners) concert at the Electric Ballroom in London to benefit a miners’ strike. Neil and Chris are in the audience.
They meet Dusty Springfield for the first time at London’s Advision Studios, where they discuss her pending vocal work on ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’
The Boys perform in Manchester, U.K.
They work with Stuart Price on the medley they will perform at the upcoming BRITS Awards.