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.
Liza Minnelli begins recording the vocals for her album Results, produced and largely written by the Pet Shop Boys. This will be the first of five consecutive nights of session work.
Chris and Neil begin work on a new version of ‘Paninaro,’ which will eventually become ‘Paninaro ’95.’
Chris and Neil write a new song, ‘China.’ Afterwards (‘rather appropriately,’ as Neil puts it), they have dinner with singer Gary Barlow at the London Chinese restaurant Mr. Chow’s.
They work in the studio on ‘Breathing Space’ and ‘Night and the City.’
The Boys perform tonight in Phoenix, Arizona.