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.
‘West End Girls’ debuts on the U.S. singles chart, where it will remain for 20 weeks, including one week at #1.
Having spent the month of February in Berlin working on new songs, the Boys fly back to London for the opening later in March of their ballet The Most Incredible Thing. (A round of promotional activities will soon begin.)
Neil and Chris spend, as they say on their website, ‘a great day’ at Capitol Studios in the famed Capitol Tower building in Hollywood, overseeing the recording sessions for their next album’s brass and string parts.
This afternoon both Chris and Neil attend the final performance (at least for now) of Musik at London’s Leicester Square Theatre.