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 records the vocals for ‘Footsteps.’
The Pet Shop Boys bring their Release Tour to Edinburgh, Scotland. On the same day, ‘I Get Along’ is released as a single.
They perform at the famed Paris Olympia, their first-ever show at this legendary venue—the oldest music hall in Paris, founded in 1889.
Neil duets with singer Carla Marie Williams on a climactic portion of ‘The Way It Used to Be.’
PSB and Take That perform the first of two consecutive nights’ shows in Copenhagen. Earlier in the day, they had worked in Chris’s hotel room on the song ‘Listening.’
Excerpts from the Boys’ ballet The Most Incredible Thing are performed this afternoon at the Latitude festival in Suffolk, U.K.
A script read-through of Musik takes place at Frances Barber’s flat.