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.
Roughly twenty drummers from Sheboom! record the percussion tracks for ‘Discoteca’ and ‘Se A Vida E.’
The Boys’ second Fundamental show in Florida takes place at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando.
Chris and Neil fly to Paris to attend a New Order concert. After the show they meet with the band backstage.
Neil is among the celebrity participants this evening in a live online concert in London titled ‘Staging a Revolution: I’m with the Banned,’ presented by Belarus Free Theatre. This event, staged to protest and raise awareness of repression of artistic freedom in Belarus, is broadcast live on the BBC Arts website. Neil’s contribution involves a dramatic reading of an excerpt from Jeans Generation, a play currently banned in Belarus.
Work resumes on ‘On Social Media’ as the Boys change the song’s structure.
Neil and Chris attend Madonna’s concert this evening at London’s O2 Arena, afterwards describing it as a ‘wonderful show.’