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.
Chris first plays for Neil the tracks that he and David Morales had created for ‘New York City Boy,’ and Neil begins work on the lyrics.
The Pet Shop Boys appear this afternoon on U.K. television’s The Paul O’Grady Show, where they perform ‘Vocal.’ They’re pleased to note afterward on their website that a member of the show’s TV crew had appeared as one of the babies in their music video for ‘It’s Alright’—roughly a quarter-century before!
They work on the track ‘Dreamland.’