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.
Zelda Fitzgerald dies in a fire in an Asheville, North Carolina mental hospital. She’s important in PSB history for having written the lines that inspired the song ‘Being Boring.’
The issue with today’s date of the U.K. magazine Record Mirror has a cover story on Liza Minnelli, referring to her as ‘Pet Shop Girl,’ which harkens back to the previous year’s album Results, produced and largely composed by the Pet Shop Boys.
Continuing work on ‘Indefinite Leave to Remain,’ Neil finishes the lyrics and records vocals.
Although this afternoon’s scheduled matinee performance of The Most Incredible Thing by the Charlotte Ballet had, just as the previous evening’s show, been canceled on account of technical problems, this evening’s performance goes off without a hitch, becoming, in effect, the work’s ‘opening night’ in America.