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 do some ‘reprogramming’ of ‘You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk.’
They spend most of the day working with Andrew Dawson on ‘A Face Like That.’ That evening they watch the film WE, directed by Madonna, on DVD.
An online ‘fake news’ page falsely reports that Neil has died in a car crash. Then someone pretending to be Neil goes on Twitter to refute the report. (The next day, the real Neil would comment about all this on the official PSB website, noting that he was of course alive and well, but that he hadn’t gone on Twitter to refute the story, either.)
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the 50th birthday party for Russian billionaire businessman Oleg Tinkov at the Belmond Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Tinkov’s actual birthday was roughly three weeks earlier, but the party took place on this date.)