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 third collection of PSB videos, Promotion, is released.
Neil records what he describes as ‘Arabic flamenco nonsense vocals’ for the track ‘The Day Before Tomorrow,’ which ultimately evolves into ‘God Willing.’
The first of no fewer than eight performances over the course of the next week-and-a-half by the Pet Shop Boys and Take That at the Manchester Stadium.
The Pet Shop Boys perform this evening in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In Berlin, they begin work on ‘Omar’s Theme’ for My Beautiful Laundrette.
Neil works on a track that will soon evolve into ‘The Secret of Happiness.’