and when did you cry last?

Reading Tom's When did you cry last? took me back to memories of a mutual friend and ON Chris Dowell who died in 1989. Chris was also a friend of Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys whose song Being Boring is about him:

"Being boring was a key song for us, since it was very, very autobiographical. It was about friend of mine—he became a teacher and then he contracted AIDS. And he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, just the time we’ve become very, very successful. We were sort of more or less childhood friends. And then he died in 1989. And so it was just an autobiographical song, just trying to look at our lives and—you know—what we wanted to do. When we were fifteen, we used to say “when I grow up, I’m not going to do anything boring, I’m going to do something special” and it was just looking at the way our lives have gone since then. And it was the first time I did a lyric that was completely autobiographical".