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.
An interview with Neil runs in the U.K. publication Woman.
The Boys perform in Karlstad, Sweden.
Continuing their summer Fundamental Tour, they perform at the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
The last of eight PSB/Take That concerts at Wembley Stadium—and the final show of the tour in the British Isles—takes place this evening.
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Freiburg, Germany.
Having received Jean-Michel Jarre’s backing track for what will soon become ‘Brick England,’ Chris and Neil spend the first of several days adding musical parts and vocals to it.
The Boys continue work on ‘No Boundaries,’ restructuring it and revising the lyrics.
They bring their Dreamworld Tour to Spain’s Bilbao Live Festival.
They conclude the brief continental European leg of their current tour with a show in Gothenberg, Sweden.