July 1954
Neil Francis Tennant is born on July 10th in North Shields, Northumberland.
History
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.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com