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April 2015

On April 22, the Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven is performed in London for the first time in fourteen years, in a sold-out month-long run at The Union Theatre. (It will return for a further five weeks beginning on October 21.). For this revival, at the Pet Shop Boys’ request, the musical’s original final number, “Positive role model”, is replaced by “Vocal”.

August 2015

On August 15, the final date of the much-extended Electric tour – which began in March, 2013 – takes place at the Flow Festival in Helsinki. The tour has visited over forty countries.

December 2015

On December 2, the Pet Shop Boys appear at MAMA – the Mnet Asian Music Awards – in Hong Kong. They are given the Worldwide Inspiration award and play a lengthy live medley, joined for their final two songs, “What have I done to deserve this?” and “Vocal”, by the K‑Pop artist f(x). At the organisers’ request, they wear the Electric tour straw jackets for, possibly, the final time.

On this day

1998

Neil records the vocals for ‘Footsteps.’

2002

The Pet Shop Boys bring their Release Tour to Edinburgh, Scotland. On the same day, ‘I Get Along’ is released as a single.

2009

They perform at the famed Paris Olympia, their first-ever show at this legendary venue—the oldest music hall in Paris, founded in 1889.

2008

Neil duets with singer Carla Marie Williams on a climactic portion of ‘The Way It Used to Be.’

2011

PSB and Take That perform the first of two consecutive nights’ shows in Copenhagen. Earlier in the day, they had worked in Chris’s hotel room on the song ‘Listening.’

2012

Excerpts from the Boys’ ballet The Most Incredible Thing are performed this afternoon at the Latitude festival in Suffolk, U.K.

2019

A script read-through of Musik takes place at Frances Barber’s flat.