Chris goes to Liverpool University to study architecture. During 1981 ‑1982 he spends a year gaining practical experience in a London architectural practice, designing a staircase in an industrial development in Milton Keynes. “It’s not a remarkable staircase”, he comments when visiting it in 1988, “It’s just a functional staircase”.
The Crying Game soundtrack (partly produced by PSB) is released on their Spaghetti label.
The Boys launch their DiscoVery tour in Singapore.
They headline at London’s Equality commemoration, having agreed to perform a ‘hastily arranged’ set only at the last minute. Chris later enthuses, ‘It was our greatest moment… our finest hour.’
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Detroit. By a remarkable coincidence, they’ve done consecutive shows in St. Louis and Detroit at the very same time that those two cities’ baseball teams are battling for the World Series championship.
2008: Neil and Chris attend a concert by the Last Shadow Puppets at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.
2013: Chris and Neil are interviewed by Graham Norton on his midday show on BBC Radio 2.