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 Pet Shop Boys perform the third of three consecutive nights’ shows at Wembley Arena in London.
The Boys headline the ‘Garden Party’ at Ballinlough Castle in Ireland. That same evening, the exclusive concert that they had recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London five nights before is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
The track ‘Invisible’ is purposefully ‘leaked’ to the Internet as an advance promotional teaser for the Pet Shop Boys’ next album.
Continuing the European leg of their Electric Tour, the Boys perform this evening in Copenhagen.
They appear in concert in Porto, Portugal.
Their ongoing Dreamworld Tour comes to Manchester.