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
1988
Neil is the guest this afternoon on the BBC Radio 1 show My Top Ten, where he chooses his ten all-time favorite tracks.
1995
Chris and Neil take over BBC Radio 1 for two hours this evening with the holiday special Merry Pet Shop Boys, on which they play some of their favorite songs and host several guests.
1999
The Boys make a Christmas Eve appearance on the U.K. TV show TFI Friday, performing ‘It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas.’
2002
They announce that they will kick off 2003 by remixing Yoko Ono’s ‘Walking on Thin Ice’ for an upcoming Ono remix album.
2013
Queen Elizabeth II grants Alan Turing a posthumous Royal Pardon—an event that inspires Neil and Chris to make revisions to the concluding movement of their yet-to-be-performed work A Man from the Future.
- Facts collated by geowayne.com