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October 1959

Christopher Sean Lowe is born on October 4th in Blackpool, Lancashire.

On this day

1993

BPI awards a U.K. gold record to Very. This same evening, Chris and Neil appear on BBC2’s The O Zone, talking to interviewer Andi Peters about the album.

1994

Kylie Minogue’s eponymous album, featuring ‘Falling,’ written by the Pet Shop Boys, debuts on the U.K. chart at its #4 peak.

1998

After watching part of the remake of Psycho, the Boys rewrite ‘Screaming.’

2003

They perform live at the MTV Designerama Show in Berlin.

2008

Johnny Marr is back in the studio recording guitar parts, this time for ‘Building a Wall,’ ‘More Than a Dream,’ ‘Pandemonium,’ and ‘Did You See Me Coming?’

2009

The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.

2010

The U.S. premiere of the Boys’ musical Closer to Heaven opens this evening, staged by the Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas. It’s scheduled to run a little over three weeks.

2012

In Berlin, they start work on a new track, ‘Bolshy.’ Neil also does a telephone interview with the MTV Style website.

2013

Neil and Chris arrive in Seattle to begin (with a show there the following evening) the North American West Coast leg of their Electric Tour.

2015

After having spent most of the past month in Los Angeles working with Stuart Price on their next album (soon to be titled Super), the Boys fly back to London.

2017

The Super Tour comes to Monterrey, Mexico.