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 the third of three consecutive nights’ shows at Wembley Arena in London.
The Boys headline the ‘Garden Party’ at Ballinlough Castle in Ireland. That same evening, the exclusive concert that they had recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London five nights before is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
The track ‘Invisible’ is purposefully ‘leaked’ to the Internet as an advance promotional teaser for the Pet Shop Boys’ next album.
Continuing the European leg of their Electric Tour, the Boys perform this evening in Copenhagen.
They appear in concert in Porto, Portugal.
Their ongoing Dreamworld Tour comes to Manchester.