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 Pet Shop Boys perform their first full-length live concert in the U.S. at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.
Neil visits London’s Tate Modern Art Museum, where he takes in (among other things) the Louise Bourgeois exhibition.
At their new recording studio in East London, Chris and Neil work on ‘Inside a Dream,’ during which Neil sings new vocals. They also work on ‘One Night.’
As Chris notes the following day on the PSB website, he and Neil spend ‘a couple hours’ this evening at the Lab LDN (London): ‘A lot of fun and great music from Nic Fanciulli and Lauren Lane.’
The Boys perform tonight in Toronto: the second of two Canadian dates on the Super Tour.
After walking to Hansa Studios on what Neil describes in his journal as ‘a beautiful sunny morning,’ the Boys work with Stuart Price on a new version of ‘Wedding in Berlin,’ featuring Neil’s revised lyrics to remove specific references to the wedding for which it was originally written.