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.
Prince performs the first of several nights of sold-out shows at London’s Wembley Arena. Neil and Chris attend the concert as well as a party thrown afterward by Prince himself.
Liza Minnelli’s ‘Losing My Mind,’ produced by PSB, is released.
Cicero’s ‘Heaven Must Have Sent You Back to Me’ appears on the Boys’ own label, Spaghetti.
‘Se A Vida E’ is released as a single.
Chris and Neil fly to Spain for an evening appearance at the Creamfields Festival.
The Pet Shop Boys conclude their ‘Fundamental Tour proper’ (though a few sporadic shows follow using similar staging and setlists) with a performance in Tokyo. Afterward they go on holiday for a while.
The Boys perform live at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics in London. Because they must share the spotlight with a great many other U.K. artists (the theme is ‘A Symphony of British Music’), they get to do only one song: ‘West End Girls.’
The Super Tour comes to Zadar, Croatia.