After completing a degree in history at the Polytechnic of North London, Neil takes a job at Marvel Comics, anglicizing spellings and indicating where over-risque woman needed to be redrawn decently. While there he interviews comic fan Marc Bolan, who politely points out that his tape recorder wasn’t working. In 1977 he works at Macdonald Educational Publishing, later moving to ITV Books. In June 1982, he joins Smash Hits.
The Boys perform in Stockholm, Sweden.
They begin working on a new song, ‘Mid-life Crisis,’ for Closer to Heaven, but eventually decide not to include it.
An original musical built around acoustic renditions of Tennant-Lowe songs, Seriously: Pet Shop Boys, Reinterpreted, opens for a limited run in Melbourne, Australia. (Neil and Chris are not directly involved, but they give the show their blessing.)
They write a new instrumental, which they call ‘Pedal.’
Chris, Neil, and Andrew Dawson spend the entire day working on ‘Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin.’
A busy day in the studio working on several new tracks and searching for old demos for possible release on upcoming album reissues.