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.
Chris and Neil are interviewed in Chris’s London home by Chris Heath. (The interview ultimately appears in the Somewhere show souvenir booklet.)
A promotional CD titled Pet Shop Boys Story, consisting of eleven tracks (mostly singles) taken from various phases of their career, is given away with copies of the U.K. Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Unhappy with some of the vocals he has recently re-recorded for ‘Give It a Go,’ Neil has Andrew Dawson reinstate some of the demo’s original vocal tracks.
Two weeks to the day after the Boys had started work on it, the new PSB recording ‘Oppressive (The Best Gay Possible),’ which puts to music excerpts from a recent speech by Irish drag artist Panti Bliss, debuts online.