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August 1983

Neil is sent to New York by Smash Hits to interview The Police. By this time the Pet Shop Boys are obsessed by a stream of hi energy records made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, known as Bobby O’. “I thought well, if I’ve got to go and see The Police play then I’m also going to have lunch with Bobby O’ ”. Neil and Bobby O share a cheeseburger and carrot cake at a restaurant called The Apple Jack on August 19th (two years to the day since Neil and Chris met) and Bobby O’, flatered by Neil’s compliments, suggests making a record with the Pet Shop Boys.

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On this day

2001

Sinead O’Connor gets married, capping a bizarre sequence of events in which she had been slated to take part in the Boys’ ill-fated Wotapalava Festival and then dropped out.

2008: Neil attends the Leeds Festival performances of the Cribs (with guitarist Johnny Marr, who has often played with the band of late) and the Last Shadow Puppets. Afterwards he meets the members of the latter group.

2010

The Pet Shop Boys perform at the V Festival at Hyland Park, Chelmsford, Essex, U.K.

2013

The Electric Tour comes to Beijing, China.

2021

Neil attends this evening’s BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. The program consists of several works by Stravinsky.

2025

A century after the film’s debut and two decades after the release of the Tennant-Lowe score for Battleship Potemkin, the film complete with their score begins playing for the first time in select cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland.