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 and Neil work in the studio on ‘Integral’ and record Neil’s vocals for ‘I Made My Excuses and Left.’
The Pandemonium live CD/DVD is released today in the U.K. and certain other countries (although the release date comes later for various other locales).
They continue demoing their new song ‘Vocal’ and begin work on another new one titled ‘Ball Starts Rolling.’
The Boys’ official website notes that Neil has been recording vocals for their next studio album (which will soon be titled Elysium).
The Pet Shop Boys receive NME’s ‘Godlike Genius Award’ at London’s O2 Brixton Academy, after which they close the awards show with a special half-hour performance.