April 1984
The first version of ‘West End girls’ is released. It is a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a small hit in France and Belgium.
History
October 1984
They make their first ever stage appearance at the Fridge Nightclub in Brixton, singing and playing over tapes.
On this day
1997
Chris and Neil are interviewed in Chris’s London home by Chris Heath. (The interview ultimately appears in the Somewhere show souvenir booklet.)
2009
A promotional CD titled Pet Shop Boys Story, consisting of eleven tracks (mostly singles) taken from various phases of their career, is given away with copies of the U.K. Mail on Sunday newspaper.
2012
Unhappy with some of the vocals he has recently re-recorded for ‘Give It a Go,’ Neil has Andrew Dawson reinstate some of the demo’s original vocal tracks.
2014
Two weeks to the day after the Boys had started work on it, the new PSB recording ‘Oppressive (The Best Gay Possible),’ which puts to music excerpts from a recent speech by Irish drag artist Panti Bliss, debuts online.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com