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 Pet Shop Boys fly into Oakland, California, where Chris’s luggage is lost at the airport. (It’s later recovered.) That evening they perform at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco.
On the second date of their Latin American ‘mini-tour,’ the Boys perform in Mexico City.
Toward the end of a day working on various Fundamental track mixes, the Boys have an evening drink with the members of Bananarama.
The Fundamental Tour comes to West Valley, Utah.
It is announced that the Pet Shop Boys will receive BPI’s prestigious
2011
At his London home, Chris composes music for the German poem ‘Thoughts Are Free.’