Chris goes to Liverpool University to study architecture. During 1981 ‑1982 he spends a year gaining practical experience in a London architectural practice, designing a staircase in an industrial development in Milton Keynes. “It’s not a remarkable staircase”, he comments when visiting it in 1988, “It’s just a functional staircase”.
The Pet Shop Boys’ first single—the original ‘Bobby O’ version of ‘West End Girls’—is released.
‘Heart’ hits #1 in the U.K.
The Boys bring their Performance tour show to Radio City Music Hall in New York City. (A reviewer for the New York Post so detests it that he would go on to suggest, infamously, that Radio City Music Hall needed be ‘fumigated’ as a result.)
The Boys are traveling by Winnebago between their southwestern U.S. venues on the current leg of their Electric Tour. Today, in transit from the San Francisco Bay area to southern California, they stop and spend the night at San Simeon, site of the famed Hearst Castle.