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.
Chris and Neil tour Aztec pyramids and temples in Mexico while on a brief break during the Latin American leg of their DiscoVery tour.
The Boys attend a rehearsal of David Almond’s play My Dad’s a Birdman, for which they have written songs and music.
This evening, at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the BBC Concert Orchestra performs a program titled Exstatica, consisting of works that convey ‘states of ecstasy’ in various forms. Among the works performed is a specially commissioned setting of the PSB song ‘I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing,’ arranged by Richard Niles and sung by soprano Kate Winter. The concert is broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Mexico City: the final show of the North American leg of their Super Tour.
They kick off the 2023 Latin American leg of their extended Dreamworld Tour with a concert this evening at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.