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 first plays for Neil the tracks that he and David Morales had created for ‘New York City Boy,’ and Neil begins work on the lyrics.
The Pet Shop Boys appear this afternoon on U.K. television’s The Paul O’Grady Show, where they perform ‘Vocal.’ They’re pleased to note afterward on their website that a member of the show’s TV crew had appeared as one of the babies in their music video for ‘It’s Alright’—roughly a quarter-century before!
They work on the track ‘Dreamland.’