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 for charity at London’s popular dance club Heaven.
Working with Michael Brauer, they begin the task of mixing Release.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the historic DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
They appear tonight at the Mexico City Arena—the final date of their 2013 Electric Tour.
Neil visits the (in his own words) ‘beautiful and brilliant’ bookstore El Ateneo in Buenos Aires. And in the evening he and Chris perform the second show of their Super Tour at the city’s Festival BUE, sharing the bill with Wilco and The Flaming Lips, among others.
Neil and Chris attend a performance at London’s Dorfman Theatre of David Lan’s new play The Land of the Living starring Juliet Stevenson, who in 2014 had performed the narration for their premiere of A Man from the Future and who had recently served the same role in the at that time unreleased studio rendition.