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”.
An interview with Neil runs in the U.K. publication Woman.
The Boys perform in Karlstad, Sweden.
Continuing their summer Fundamental Tour, they perform at the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
The last of eight PSB/Take That concerts at Wembley Stadium—and the final show of the tour in the British Isles—takes place this evening.
The Pet Shop Boys perform in Freiburg, Germany.
Having received Jean-Michel Jarre’s backing track for what will soon become ‘Brick England,’ Chris and Neil spend the first of several days adding musical parts and vocals to it.
The Boys continue work on ‘No Boundaries,’ restructuring it and revising the lyrics.
They bring their Dreamworld Tour to Spain’s Bilbao Live Festival.
They conclude the brief continental European leg of their current tour with a show in Gothenberg, Sweden.