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.
Actually is released.
Boy George’s ‘The Crying Game’ single, produced by PSB, is released.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Rock ‘n’ Coke Festival in Istanbul—the largest outdoor music festival in Turkish history.
They perform at a free concert in the city square of Skopje, Macedonia.
Elysium is released in Germany. It will subsequently be released in various other countries over the next few days.
The Pet Shop Boys perform their one-hundredth Electric Tour show this evening at the Portmeirion Festival in Wales. To help commemorate the occasion, they’re joined onstage by the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir for an especially powerful climactic performance of ‘Go West.’