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.
Liza Minnelli’s ‘So Sorry, I Said,’ written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys, is released as a single.
Critic J.D. Considine, writing in this date’s issue of Rolling Stone, gives Very a glowing review, stating that it has ‘depth that makes [it] worth hearing again and again.’
The Boys appear in concert in Bogota, Colombia.
Neil and Chris perform at the Sala Palatului (Palatine Hall) in Bucharest. By all reports, the show—their first ever in Romania, and postponed from an earlier date—proves a tremendous success. (The Boys refer to it as ‘the last Fundamental concert.’)
This afternoon Chris attends the first preview performance at London’s Young Vic Theatre of David Almond’s play My Dad’s a Birdman, which includes original music and songs composed by him and Neil.
In Leipzig, Germany, for the start of the European leg of their Super Tour the following night, Chris and Neil attend a performance this evening of The Hidden Cameras and their opening act, Evvol, both of which they thoroughly enjoy.