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 kick off a brief summer tour in Jerusalem.
They bring their Release Tour to Dallas, Texas.
They work at Metropolis Studio, remastering the Battleship Potemkin album. Afterwards they attend the ballet to see Swan Lake.
They perform at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark. Chris is especially pleased to note that his grandfather had played at the same venue nearly a half-century before with his own band The Nitwits.
Chris and Neil appear on the BBC Breakfast television show to promote their new single, ‘Did You See Me Coming?’