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”.
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.
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.
A pre-stardom Neil attends a Sex Pistols gig at the Nashville pub in London, during which a fight breaks out. Neil writes about the event in a published letter to NME.
The Boys employ a sample from T.Rex’s ‘Get It On’ as the basis for a new song called ‘A Little Black Dress.’
Release is released in the U.S.
The Pet Shop Boys appear on Top of the Pops, performing ‘I’m with Stupid.’ They don’t know it at the time, but it will prove to be the last of their 58 appearances on the soon-to-be-canceled series.
2008: Neil attends a preview of an exhibition of photography by Linda McCartney at the James Hyman Gallery in London.
Pete Gleadall records Neil’s vocals for a revised version of ‘Love Is a Bourgeois Construct.’
PSB performs at Moogfest 2014 in Asheville, North Carolina.