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Classic Pop
Classic Pop magazine is the ultimate celebration of great pop and chart music across the decades with in-depth interviews with top artists, features, news and reviews. From pop to indie and new wave to electronic music – it's all here...
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Review: Kylie Minogue, Genting Arena, Birmingham live
The antipodean pop icon celebrates her golden jubilee in style… and in cowboy boots! Has Kylie discovered her inner Dolly? Has she gone loco for line dancing? Kylie has plenty…
The Godfathers of Pop: Per Gessle interview
Douglas McPherson chats to Per Gessle, who found fame with Swedish boy band Gyllene Tider and as one half of duo Roxette. Per Gessle first tasted fame in Swedish boy…
Review: Simple Minds Grandslam ’18, Coventry live
Wham, bam… It’s Grandslam, as two much-loved Scottish acts and a great pretender from America are sent to Coventry – one for the very first time… Delving back into Simple…
Lost & Found: Paul Young – Between Two Fires
Paul Young’s tail was up in 1986. Now aged 30, engaged, wealthy and established; confidence was telling him to branch out from being mainly a covers artist. He co-wrote all…
Review: Cocteau Twins – Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years
In 4AD’s halcyon years as the keepers of indie-pop’s most ethereal flames, no artists were more closely associated with the label’s ethos than the Cocteau Twins. Indeed, some of their…
Review: Bananarama – Live At The London Eventim Hammersmith Apollo
As Bananarama return to life as a duo, it seems they’ll be as good as their word that the recent reunion with Siobhan Fahey will be the first and last…
Review: Jess Glynne – Always In Between
Jess Glynne sounds like fun. Check out the video for the Bee Gees-flavoured All I Am, which – contrived though it may be – finds her larking around backstage at…
One Hit Wonder: The Dazz Band – Let It All Blow
‘Danceable jazz’ was the raison d’être of the group that singer and saxophonist Bobby Harris wanted to form when he left jazz-fusion band Bell Telefunk in 1976 to start afresh…
Review: This Mortal Coil – It’ll End In Tears/Filigree & Shadow/Blood
Ivo Watts-Russell is one of the great under-celebrated pathfinders for UK 80s indie music. His 4AD label incubated a sharp, profound, melancholic musical aesthetic whose influence has reverberated ever since.…