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
1948
Zelda Fitzgerald dies in a fire in an Asheville, North Carolina mental hospital. She’s important in PSB history for having written the lines that inspired the song ‘Being Boring.’
1990
The issue with today’s date of the U.K. magazine Record Mirror has a cover story on Liza Minnelli, referring to her as ‘Pet Shop Girl,’ which harkens back to the previous year’s album Results, produced and largely composed by the Pet Shop Boys.
2005
Continuing work on ‘Indefinite Leave to Remain,’ Neil finishes the lyrics and records vocals.
2018
Although this afternoon’s scheduled matinee performance of The Most Incredible Thing by the Charlotte Ballet had, just as the previous evening’s show, been canceled on account of technical problems, this evening’s performance goes off without a hitch, becoming, in effect, the work’s ‘opening night’ in America.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com