April 1984
The first version of ‘West End girls’ is released. It is a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a small hit in France and Belgium.
History
October 1984
They make their first ever stage appearance at the Fridge Nightclub in Brixton, singing and playing over tapes.
On this day
1984
The exact publication date seems lost, but sometime this month (though it’s dated the following month, February) the debut issue of Star Hits, the U.S. spinoff from the U.K. Smash Hits, appears on the newstands. It includes an interview, conducted the preceding November, by pre-stardom Neil Tennant with new-stardom Madonna, who at the time of their meeting had only one major hit single to her credit, ‘Holiday.’ (By the time of publication, she’d earned one more, ‘Lucky Star.’)
2002
Billboard magazine runs a brief article that announces the upcoming new Pet Shop Boys album (Release) but points out that they don’t yet have a U.S. distribution label for it.
2020
Neil is interviewed (over the phone) by Nicki Chapman on BBC Radio 2 this morning, during which he briefly discusses their upcoming album Hotspot and premiers their new single, ‘Monkey Business.’
- Facts collated by geowayne.com