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 is released.
The Boys finish recording ‘Sail Away’ at Sarm West.
PSB are featured on U.K. radio’s The John Peel Show, including three previously unreleased songs. (Their performance had been recorded eight days prior.)
After working in the studio mixing a couple of Fundamental tracks, Chris and Neil attend a concert by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto.
The Boys begin the North American leg of their Fundamental Tour with a concert in Montreal.
A pre-recorded interview with Neil is broadcast on BBC Radio 2’s Janice Long Show. For the show’s regular ‘Spoken Word’ feature, Neil reads an excerpt from the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
The Boys work all afternoon on the track ‘On Social Media.’