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”.
Neil and Chris are interviewed on Moscow’s ‘Radio Silver Rain’ two days before they’re scheduled to perform in concert at the city’s Luzhniki Stadium.
The Killers’ ‘Read My Mind,’ remixed by the Pet Shop Boys, is released as a single in the U.K.
The Boys bring their Super Tour this evening to the resort town of Bournemouth on the southern coast of England.
They announce on their website that they will be returning to London’s Royal Opera House for four Inner Sanctum shows in late July, repeating their sold-out four-night stand there of two years before.
The London listening bar Spiritland hosts a ‘Pet Shop Boys on 12-inch’ night.