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.
‘Was It Worth It?’ is released as a single.
The Pet Shop Boys perform the first of two shows in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which are filmed for the DiscoVery concert video.
They bring their Pandemonium Tour to Hamburg, Germany.
The Boys play a one-hour set at the fifteenth anniversary celebration of MSN (formerly The Microsoft Network) at London’s Heaven nightclub.
Neil, Chris, and journalist Chris Heath together attend the Bananarama ‘Original Lineup’ show this evening in London.
They conclude the Latin American leg of their Dreamworld Tour with what they subsequently describe as a ‘fantastic night’ in Bogotá, Colombia.