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.
Introspective debuts on the U.S. album chart, beginning a 22-week run during which it peaks at #34.
The Pet Shop Boys make a rare U.S. television appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show.
They perform in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
They perform this evening in Seattle, Washington—their first concert ever in that city.
Neil attends a Siouxsie concert at the Roundhouse in the Camden district of London.
The U.S. embassy in London hosts a party attended by 1,500 guests by invitation only to watch the early U.S. presidential election results come inthe evening of Nov. 4 in the U.S. but the early morning of Nov. 5 in Britain. Neil and Chris are among the invited attendees.
They’re guests this evening—for the fourth time—on Graham Norton’s TV show, during which they perform ‘It’s a Sin.’
The Boys work on a single mix of ‘Memory of the Future’ at Stuart Price’s West London studio.
They appear in concert this evening at Chicago’s Civic Opera House.