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”.
Neil records the vocals for ‘Footsteps.’
The Pet Shop Boys bring their Release Tour to Edinburgh, Scotland. On the same day, ‘I Get Along’ is released as a single.
They perform at the famed Paris Olympia, their first-ever show at this legendary venue—the oldest music hall in Paris, founded in 1889.
Neil duets with singer Carla Marie Williams on a climactic portion of ‘The Way It Used to Be.’
PSB and Take That perform the first of two consecutive nights’ shows in Copenhagen. Earlier in the day, they had worked in Chris’s hotel room on the song ‘Listening.’
Excerpts from the Boys’ ballet The Most Incredible Thing are performed this afternoon at the Latitude festival in Suffolk, U.K.
A script read-through of Musik takes place at Frances Barber’s flat.