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.
‘So Hard’ debuts on the U.S. singles chart, where it will peak at #62.
The Boys launch their Nightlife Tour in Miami, Florida.
They perform at the Jockey Club in Lima, Peru—the final date of the South American leg of the Pandemonium Tour, after which Chris and Neil have scheduled a month-long break from concert appearances.
Chris and Neil go to the EMI offices to meet with their manager Angela Becker to play her their demos of songs planned for their next album and to discuss ideas for a producer.
The Pet Shop Boys were scheduled to appear this evening on the U.S. CBS network’s The Late, Late Show with James Corden, but Neil comes down with a nasty case of food poisoning, forcing them to cancel their appearance.
The albums Yes and Elysium are reissued today, both with ‘Further Listening’ discs of bonus tracks.
The Pet Shop Boys reissue their album Relentless in a newly remastered edition on the thirtieth anniversary of its original release as a bonus disc with limited-edition copies of Very.