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 Boys start work on a new version of ‘In the Night’ for The Clothes Show.
Neil has just spent the past week in Berlin serving in a ‘consulting producer’ capacity for Rufus Wainwright’s next album, which is released early the following year with the title Release the Stars.
Having performed there the night before, Neil and Chris remain in Singapore long enough to observe the Independence Day celebrations.
They perform an abbreviated Electric Tour setlist for their appearance this evening at the Sonic Mania festival in Tokyo.
The Pet Shop Boys appear in concert at the Lokerse Festival in Belgium.br>
They perform at the Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.