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 Pet Shop Boys perform in Fukuoka, Japan.
The Release Tour comes to Berlin, Germany.
Having completed their shows in support of Take That in Ireland, Chris and Neil travel to Scotland today by ferry from Belfast. (Their next performance is scheduled for the following evening in Glasgow.)
The Boys bring their Super Tour show this evening to Chris’s hometown of Blackpool.
They perform this evening in the Scottish city of Aberdeen—their first concert appearance there in more than 30 years.
The Pet Shop Boys bring their Dreamworld show to the capital of Spain, Madrid.