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”.
Neil is the guest this afternoon on the BBC Radio 1 show My Top Ten, where he chooses his ten all-time favorite tracks.
Chris and Neil take over BBC Radio 1 for two hours this evening with the holiday special Merry Pet Shop Boys, on which they play some of their favorite songs and host several guests.
The Boys make a Christmas Eve appearance on the U.K. TV show TFI Friday, performing ‘It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas.’
They announce that they will kick off 2003 by remixing Yoko Ono’s ‘Walking on Thin Ice’ for an upcoming Ono remix album.
Queen Elizabeth II grants Alan Turing a posthumous Royal Pardon—an event that inspires Neil and Chris to make revisions to the concluding movement of their yet-to-be-performed work A Man from the Future.