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.
Dusty Springfield’s Reputation, half of which is produced by the Pet Shop Boys, debuts on the U.K. album chart at its #18 peak position.
The two-disc Bilingual — Special Edition is released.
The Boys bring their Pandemonium Tour to Barcelona.
They begin working on two new songs, ‘I Will Listen’ (which later becomes ‘Listening’) and ‘Winner.’
The Pet Shop Boys are the headline performers at the Ruisrock Festival in Turku, Finland.
The Electric Tour comes to Budapest.
The Boys perform at Törebodafestivalen in Töreboda, Sweden.
The PSB concert this evening in Copenhagen is filmed for prospective release on video the following year.