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.
Neil is suffering from a bad cold but nevertheless decides to record the vocals for ‘Electricity.’
The Boys begin writing ‘Tomorrow,’ which will ultimately become ‘Always.’
Neil and Chris are guests on The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio 2.
The Pet Shop Boys, nominated for a 2007 GLAAD Media Award as ‘Outstanding Musical Artist,’ lose out to the Scissor Sisters.
They attend the press night for the revamped production of their ballet The Most Incredible Thing.
The ‘PSB world’ is in full-on promo mode for the album Super, which at this point will be released in less than a week. Today an interview with the Boys appears in London’s The Sunday Times.