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”.
The Boys perform in Stockholm, Sweden.
They begin working on a new song, ‘Mid-life Crisis,’ for Closer to Heaven, but eventually decide not to include it.
An original musical built around acoustic renditions of Tennant-Lowe songs, Seriously: Pet Shop Boys, Reinterpreted, opens for a limited run in Melbourne, Australia. (Neil and Chris are not directly involved, but they give the show their blessing.)
They write a new instrumental, which they call ‘Pedal.’
Chris, Neil, and Andrew Dawson spend the entire day working on ‘Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin.’
A busy day in the studio working on several new tracks and searching for old demos for possible release on upcoming album reissues.