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.
Sinead O’Connor gets married, capping a bizarre sequence of events in which she had been slated to take part in the Boys’ ill-fated Wotapalava Festival and then dropped out.
2008: Neil attends the Leeds Festival performances of the Cribs (with guitarist Johnny Marr, who has often played with the band of late) and the Last Shadow Puppets. Afterwards he meets the members of the latter group.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the V Festival at Hyland Park, Chelmsford, Essex, U.K.
The Electric Tour comes to Beijing, China.
Neil attends this evening’s BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. The program consists of several works by Stravinsky.
A century after the film’s debut and two decades after the release of the Tennant-Lowe score for Battleship Potemkin, the film complete with their score begins playing for the first time in select cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland.