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.
Bilingual is released.
One of the participants in the highly rated U.S. version of the TV show Big Brother proclaims these immortal words: ‘Pet Shop Boys! I love this band!’ Meanwhile, still touristing in Turkey, Chris and Neil take a boat trip on the Bosphorus.
The first in a series of live performances across Germany of the Boys’ Battleship Potemkin score takes place in Frankfurt.
After a two-week break, the Boys resume the European leg of their Fundamental Tour in Germany at the Schlossgarten Ludwigslust.
The second of two consecutive evenings of the Pandemonium Tour in New York City.
The Boys perform a sold-out concert this evening at The Sage in Gateshead (U.K.)—the first of two consecutive nights.
Precisely three years to the day since the start of their previous two-night stand at The Sage in Gateshead, the Pet Shop Boys perform the first of two consecutive nights there.