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.
Exhausted from their recent summer tour, Chris and Neil are reportedly relaxing at their homes and will soon depart for separate summer holidays.
As their big summer tour together nears its conclusion, PSB and Take That perform in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The Boys perform at the Traffic Festival in Turin, Italy. As Neil cleverly notes the next day on their official website, ‘Touring, Turing, and Turin’ all in the same week!’
They’re in Sweden in anticipation of a pair of concerts in that country within the next several days. Today, in Stockholm, Neil visits ‘ABBA: The Museum.’
Tonight is the first of four consecutive nights’ shows by the Pet Shop Boys at the Royal Opera House in London—their second such ‘residency’ there, the first having been slightly more than two years earlier, in July 2016.
They visit Mark Farrow’s office to see the ‘Dreamland’ single artwork, after which they have dinner with their manager, Angela Becker.
2025Pet Shop Boys perform this evening at the Low Festival in Benidorm, Spain.