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 and Neil have rented a country house near Henley, west of London, to do some recording. They’re taking a break at this time while the studio is being set up.
With the Pet Shop Boys’ summer tour with Take That now concluded, Neil enjoys a break, attending the two-day Leigo Lake classical music festival in Estonia.
The Boys are in the Philippines for their concert in Manila the following evening. They spend a little time this afternoon sight-seeing, as they subsequently report on their official website.
The Pet Shop Boys headline this year’s LGBT Pride Festival in the U.K. city of Brighton. They perform this evening before an estimated crowd of 40,000.
The PSB-Jonathan Harvey-Frances Barber cabaret show Musik debuts (its first ‘preview’ performance) at The Bijou in Edinburgh.