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 are in San Bernardino and then Duarte, California, for location shooting for the ‘Suburbia’ music video.
The Independent of London reports that Neil Tennant was among 45 persons who contributed more than £5000 to Britain’s Labour Party the previous year. The exact amount was not reported.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at Bestival on the Isle of Wight.
The Pandemonium Tour comes to the Fillmore Theater in Miami Beach.
They make a surprise appearance for Volkswagen Group Night before the opening of the Frankfurt (Germany) Auto Show, during which they perform ‘Vocal’ and a special version of ‘Axis’ that includes what they later describe as ‘quotes’ from several older songs: ‘West End Girls,’ ‘It’s a Sin,’ and ‘Domino Dancing.’