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 perform at the Equality Show at the London Palladium. (Months later, Chris will tell an interviewer that he was ‘excessively drunk’ at the time. ‘I wasn’t quite at the stage of throwing up in a bucket behind the monitors, but I was pretty close.’)
They’re in St. Louis, Missouri, for the first time. Perhaps indulging Chris’s interest in architecture, they play tourist at the St. Louis Arch. Then, in the evening, they perform their Fundamental show.
They perform at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of only two Canadian dates on the Super Tour.