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.
A major fire breaks out at King’s Cross underground station in London, killing 31 people. Years later, people listening to the Pet Shop Boys song ‘King’s Cross,’ with its reference to ‘dead and wounded,’ will wrongly assume that it was inspired by this fire. In reality, the song had debuted on the album Actually a little more than two months earlier, back in September 1987.
The Boys are in the midst of a one-week break between the North American and European legs of their Nightlife Tour.
Having completed their North American Fundamental Tour, Chris and Neil are enjoying some time off in Mexico. This evening they attend a Morrissey concert in Monterrey at the same venue where they themselves had performed two nights before.