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 had been out quite late the night before and couldn’t make it into the studio, so Neil works by himself on a new track, ‘Silver Age.’
Filming for the ‘Integral’ video takes place this afternoon at Whitefield Memorial Church in central London, where the Pet Shop Boys have encouraged fans to turn up as extras, of whom about 200 are needed. Neil and Chris themselves, however, don’t attend since their own parts in the video have already been filmed.
The Boys perform at the V Festival at Weston Park, Staffordshire, U.K.