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.
Neil is in Budapest for a brief visit that provides inspiration for the second verse of ‘To Step Aside.’
A performance of the Potemkin score takes place tonight in Bonn, Germany.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Electric Picnic in Ireland.
They bring their Pandemonium Tour show to the historic Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. On the same day, the U.K. city of Blackpool—Chris Lowe’s hometown—officially launches its ‘Brilliance’ light and audio show, which features a recorded greeting by the Boys as well as a specially recorded medley of their hits, to which the light show is synchronized.
For the second night in a row they perform in Gateshead, U.K.
The Boys perform again this evening in Gateshead.
Following its recent and very successful run in Edinburgh, the PSB-Jonathan Harvey-Frances Barber cabaret show Musik begins its five-night stand at London’s Leicester Square Theatre.