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.
‘Opportunities’ debuts on the U.S. singles chart.
‘Can You Forgive Her?’ is released as a single.
The official opening night of Closer to Heaven at the Arts Theatre in London.
Neil and Chris attend the U.K. premiere of Torsten Rasch’s composition My Heart Is on Fire (based on the music and lyrics of the band Rammstein) at London’s Royal Festival Hall. It was their exposure to this work several years earlier that had led the Pet Shop Boys to tapping Rasch to orchestrate their score for Battleship Potemkin.
The fourth and final night of Take That’s string of shows at the Sunderland Stadium of Light featuring PSB as their opening-act ‘special guests.’
The Pet Shop Boys are in Frankfurt, Germany for their concert there this evening.
Still developing what later will become ‘An Open Mind’ (which, at this time, bears an earlier title, ‘One Track Mind’), Chris and Neil also work on the unreleased song ‘He’s Not Coming Home.’ After dinner, they watch a couple of episodes of Frasier.
The Pet Shop Boys conclude the U.K. leg of their Dreamworld Tour with their first-ever concert in city of Hull.
They kick off the Summer 2023 continuation of their Dreamworld Tour with a show at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.
Pet Shop Boys headline the O Son do Camiño Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.