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 ‘Suburbia’ on Top of the Pops.
Johnny Marr records guitar parts for ‘Love Is a Catastrophe’ and ‘Between Two Islands.’
They record four songs in a studio session to be broadcast over radio a little over a week later on The John Peel Show.
Chris and Neil appear on U.K. Channel 4’s Paul O’Grady Show.
Neil attends the London premiere Anton Corbijn’s film Control about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Also in attendance are members of New Order, the band that grew out of Joy Division in the wake of Curtis’s suicide in 1980.
They continue working on ‘Bolshy’ and also begin a new track, ‘Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know,’ for their Alan Turing project.
The Boys perform at the Paramount Theater in Seattle.
The Unity Tour comes to Minneapolis.