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 and Chris spend the day working on ‘C Major,’ which becomes ‘A Red Letter Day.’
The Boys headline on the final night of the Stockholm Water Festival in Sweden, performing on a floating platform.
Following her concert at Wembley Arena, the Pet Shop Boys attend a party celebrating Madonna’s 48th birthday (which was actually the day before) at the Lounge Lover bar in London.
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Jakarta, Indonesia. It also happens to be the nation’s Independence Day, a fact that the Boys note in a posting on their official website.