On August 19th, Neil and Chris meet by chance in an electronics shop on the Kings Road. Realizing they have a common interest in dance music, they begin to write together. Initially they call themselves West End; later they come up with the name Pet Shop Boys, a name derived from some friends who work in a pet shop in Ealing. “We thought it sounded like an English rap group”.
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.