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 ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Disco Potential.’
For the first of what turns out to be four days in a row, they work on music that at the time they expect will serve as the concluding segment of A Man from the Future.
The Boys bring their Electric Tour show to ‘Austin City Limits Live’ at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas.
This afternoon Neil and Chris attend the first run-through of the upcoming revival of Closer To Heaven at London’s Union Theatre.
Neil is interviewed this evening about his cultural influences on BBC Radio’s This Cultural Life.
Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now, a new 90-minute film for the documentary series Imagine, debuts this evening on BBC One.