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.
In New York, Neil and Chris have a photo session with famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. As they later observe, they were well aware at the time that he was ill with AIDS and ‘didn’t look terribly well.’
Dusty Springfield performs the PSB-penned ‘Nothing Has Been Proved’ on Top of the Pops.
The Boys continue work on ‘The Sodom and Gomorrah Show’ and then begin a new song, ‘Indefinite Leave to Remain.’
The Tennant-Lowe ballet The Most Incredible Thing had been scheduled to have its U.S. premiere this evening at the Knight Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina, performed by the Charlotte Ballet—the first of nine performances slated through March 18. But unfortunately this evening’s show (and that of the following afternoon) had to be canceled on account of what was described as ‘a critical mechanical failure.’ (Affected customers were offered replacement tickets for a subsequent performance.)