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”.
Actually is released.
Boy George’s ‘The Crying Game’ single, produced by PSB, is released.
The Pet Shop Boys perform at the Rock ‘n’ Coke Festival in Istanbul—the largest outdoor music festival in Turkish history.
They perform at a free concert in the city square of Skopje, Macedonia.
Elysium is released in Germany. It will subsequently be released in various other countries over the next few days.
The Pet Shop Boys perform their one-hundredth Electric Tour show this evening at the Portmeirion Festival in Wales. To help commemorate the occasion, they’re joined onstage by the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir for an especially powerful climactic performance of ‘Go West.’