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.
New Order releases ‘Blue Monday.’ Neil has denied the rumor that he cried the first time he heard it, allegedly because it had stylistically ‘beat them to the punch.’
Still in Naples, Neil and Chris begin work on a new song, ‘The Sodom and Gomorrah Show.’
An interview with the Boys and their collaborator on the ballet The Most Incredible Thing, dancer and choreographer Javier De Frutos, airs this evening on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row program.
Neil writes on the official PSB website that he and Chris have been rehearsing all week in preparation for their upcoming ‘Electric’ tour, the first date of which will be later this month in Veracruz, Mexico.
The Pet Shop Boys’ remix of ‘Innocent Money’ by Primal Scream, with Neil’s support vocals, debuts online.