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August 1983

Neil is sent to New York by Smash Hits to interview The Police. By this time the Pet Shop Boys are obsessed by a stream of hi energy records made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, known as Bobby O’. “I thought well, if I’ve got to go and see The Police play then I’m also going to have lunch with Bobby O’ ”. Neil and Bobby O share a cheeseburger and carrot cake at a restaurant called The Apple Jack on August 19th (two years to the day since Neil and Chris met) and Bobby O’, flatered by Neil’s compliments, suggests making a record with the Pet Shop Boys.

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On this day

1984

The Pet Shop Boys’ first single—the original ‘Bobby O’ version of ‘West End Girls’—is released.

1988

‘Heart’ hits #1 in the U.K.

1991

The Boys bring their Performance tour show to Radio City Music Hall in New York City. (A reviewer for the New York Post so detests it that he would go on to suggest, infamously, that Radio City Music Hall needed be ‘fumigated’ as a result.)

2014

The Boys are traveling by Winnebago between their southwestern U.S. venues on the current leg of their Electric Tour. Today, in transit from the San Francisco Bay area to southern California, they stop and spend the night at San Simeon, site of the famed Hearst Castle.