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.
BBC radio broadcasts an ‘In Concert’ special featuring the Pet Shop Boys’ DiscoVery show.
The Boys perform at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. The show goes well despite the fact that Neil had earlier been suffering from food poisoning and had been, in his own words, ‘throwing up all day.’
The Electric Tour comes to the U.K. city of Brighton.
After driving roughly 300 miles (about 470 km) north through the British countryside to Scotland, the Boys perform this evening in Glasgow.