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 Pet Shop Boys perform their first full-length live concert in the U.S. at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.
Neil visits London’s Tate Modern Art Museum, where he takes in (among other things) the Louise Bourgeois exhibition.
At their new recording studio in East London, Chris and Neil work on ‘Inside a Dream,’ during which Neil sings new vocals. They also work on ‘One Night.’
As Chris notes the following day on the PSB website, he and Neil spend ‘a couple hours’ this evening at the Lab LDN (London): ‘A lot of fun and great music from Nic Fanciulli and Lauren Lane.’
The Boys perform tonight in Toronto: the second of two Canadian dates on the Super Tour.
After walking to Hansa Studios on what Neil describes in his journal as ‘a beautiful sunny morning,’ the Boys work with Stuart Price on a new version of ‘Wedding in Berlin,’ featuring Neil’s revised lyrics to remove specific references to the wedding for which it was originally written.