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.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at Wembley Arena in London, their final show before a four-week break in the Nightlife Tour.
Continuing the U.K. leg of their Pandemonium Tour, the Boys perform in Manchester. This same evening, BBC6 radio broadcasts a program that Neil and Chris had recorded several days earlier focusing on dance music that has especially influenced them.
‘Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits Christmas,’ a special program that focuses on Neil’s time as an assistant editor with the magazine, airs on BBC Radio 4.
An hour-long edit of Performance, the film of the Pet Shop Boys’ 1991 tour, is televised this evening on BBC4.