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 conclusion airs tonight of a two-part The O Zone special on BBC1 focusing on the Pet Shop Boys.
‘Paninaro ‘95’ falls from #4 to #6 on the Latvian radio airplay chart.
Neil, Chris, and the Dresdner Sinfoniker perform the Potemkin score in Berlin.
The Boys perform ‘Love etc.’ on the U.S. NBC TV show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon—although, since their appearance runs after midnight in all U.S. locations, it’s technically the next day, September 5.
The Electric Tour comes to Gdańsk, Poland.
Neil and Chris are in Glasgow, Scotland in preparation for their concert there the following evening.
Their website reports that they are currently on holiday following their summer tour, but will soon be back in the studio writing and recording their next album with producer Stuart Price. It adds that they’ve already written 21 new songs.
The Boys listen to Stuart Price’s remix of ‘Dreamland’ and later work with Mark Farrow on the album booklet artwork for Hotspot.