On August 19th, Neil and Chris meet by chance in an electronics shop on the Kings Road. Realizing they have a common interest in dance music, they begin to write together. Initially they call themselves West End; later they come up with the name Pet Shop Boys, a name derived from some friends who work in a pet shop in Ealing. “We thought it sounded like an English rap group”.
Chris had been out quite late the night before and couldn’t make it into the studio, so Neil works by himself on a new track, ‘Silver Age.’
Filming for the ‘Integral’ video takes place this afternoon at Whitefield Memorial Church in central London, where the Pet Shop Boys have encouraged fans to turn up as extras, of whom about 200 are needed. Neil and Chris themselves, however, don’t attend since their own parts in the video have already been filmed.
The Boys perform at the V Festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire, U.K.