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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

1986

Dusty Springfield records most of her vocals for ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’

1995

Chris and Neil begin working on their remix/re-production of David Bowie’s ‘Hallo Spaceboy.’

2005

They travel to Paris for a brief round of meetings with continental EMI staff, playing them tracks from their next album Fundamental.

2009

The Pet Shop Boys’ Christmas EP is digitally released today in several countries in Europe and Asia as well as in Australia. (Its staggered release, both digitally and on CD, will continue in various other countries over the next several days.) The Boys also perform this evening in Magdeburg, Germany.

2012

The first of four consecutive days during which the Boys work on ‘The Trial,’ a segment of their Alan Turing project.