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 Boys record a demo for ‘The View from Your Balcony.’
They perform ‘Paninaro ‘95’ on Top of the Pops.
The Release Tour concludes in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Australian production of Seriously: Pet Shop Boys, Reinterpreted—a ‘chamber musical’ of Tennant-Lowe songs, now updated to include some material from Fundamental—begins a run for most of the month of August at the DeMarco Roxy Art House in Edinburgh, Scotland. On the same day, the Pet Shop Boys headline the Freedom 2007 festival in Malaga, Spain.
Neil and Chris are in Singapore in preparation for their Electric Tour show there the following evening.
They perform this evening at the Ice Hall in Helsinki, Finland.
The Boys attend a dress rehearsal for Musik. Also in attendance are various show-business friends of its star, Frances Barber, including actors Ian McKellen, Simon Callow, and Derek Jacobi.
They bring their ongoing Dreamworld Tour to the Lokerse Festival in Lokeren, Belgium.