After completing a degree in history at the Polytechnic of North London, Neil takes a job at Marvel Comics, anglicizing spellings and indicating where over-risque woman needed to be redrawn decently. While there he interviews comic fan Marc Bolan, who politely points out that his tape recorder wasn’t working. In 1977 he works at Macdonald Educational Publishing, later moving to ITV Books. In June 1982, he joins Smash Hits.
The Pet Shop Boys are the focus of a feature story and interview in the latest issue (dated today) of the U.K. magazine Flipside.
‘Minimal’ is released as a single.
The live Cubism DVD is released in the United States, two months after it had been released in the U.K. and various other countries.
The Boys perform at Nottingham’s Splendour Festival.
Let’s hope they didn’t develop writer’s cramp: Neil and Chris sign 500 prints for the very limited special vinyl edition of The Most Incredible Thing.