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’ first video collection, Television, is released on VHS.
The Boys perform ‘Left to My Own Devices’ on Top of the Pops. On the same day, their second video collection, Showbusiness, is released on VHS.
The PSB film It Couldn’t Happen Here is released on VHS and laserdisc.
BPI awards a U.K. platinum album award to Very. Also, the Projections collection of short Derek Jarman films created for the MCMLXXXIX Tour is released on VHS.
Neil is among the many celebrity guests attending the U.K. premiere this evening in London of the film musical Evita starring Madonna.
They appear in concert in Munich, Germany.
They perform in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The Super Tour comes to the Tempodrom in Berlin.