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”.
The Boys perform at the LifeBeat AIDS charity concert in New York City.
Neil and Chris perform the first of two consecutive nights’ shows in San Francisco.
Tonight is the fifth show of PSB’s eight non-consecutive nights opening for Take That in Manchester. Earlier in the day, Neil and Chris visited the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery.
The Boys enjoy another ‘day off’ while in Denmark on their Electric Tour. For his part, Neil visits the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek sculpture museum in Copenhagen.
This evening the Pet Shop Boys conclude their three-night run of concerts at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia.
They wind up their three-date Spanish ‘mini-tour’ with a show tonight in Barcelona.
Chris and Neil arrive in Israel for their Super Tour concert two nights later in Tel Aviv.
As an Oxford ‘Visiting Fellow,’ Neil appears onstage ‘in conversation’ with principal Alan Rusbridger at the university’s Lady Margaret Hall.
The Boys bring their Dreamworld Tour show to Prague.br>
They perform this evening in Birmingham, UK.