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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...
INXS marked 30 years of Kick in 2017 with a remastered version of their sixth album. That year, we met founder members Andrew and Jon Farriss to talk about the…
First we take Manhattan – the second British Invasion
How the Second British Invasion took on the American charts and won. By Paul Lester In the UK, we were at the vanguard of a brand new age,” ABC frontman Martin…
LET’S ROCK ANNOUNCE 2023 LINE-UPS!
SPONSORED POST A celebration of all things pop and 80s, Let’s Rock offers gloriously unpretentious non-stop fun, with legendary musicians performing hit after hit to a crowd of all ages…
Madonna celebrates 30th anniversary of Erotica with release of infamous picture disc
Madonna’s groundbreaking fifth studio album, Erotica, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on October 20, 2022. In 1992, the album debuted at the top of charts around the world and has…
The Producers – Phil Harding
From being Stock Aitken Waterman’s engineer at The Hit Factory in the 80s, producer Phil Harding then worked with East 17, 911 and Boyzone in the 90s. Classic Pop catches…
Imagination Featuring Leee John announce major boxset retrospective
A new 17CD boxset celebrating the career of Imagination and their lead singer Leee John has been announced. Imagination Featuring Leee John “40 Years” is a career-encompassing retrospective of the…
New David Bowie boxset, Divine Symmetry, coming this November
Parlophone have announced a new 4CD, one Blu-ray boxset, titled David Bowie Divine Symmetry. It’s released on 25 November and can be pre-ordered here. The collection celebrates the 12 months…
Erasure announce deluxe reissue of their self-titled seventh album
Erasure have announced a 2CD deluxe hardback book edition of their 1995 self-titled album on Mute/BMG on 18 November 2022. Originally released in October 1995, the band’s seventh album, Erasure,…
The Lowdown – ABC/Martin Fry
ABC and Martin Fry came out of the Steel City with a silky sound that seduced a generation of pop fans in the 80s. While Fry is now ABC’s last…
Q+A – Lawrence
With the documentary Lawrence Of Belgravia finally able to buy on Blu-ray, we present our 2018 interview with one of the music world’s true cult figures… By Douglas McPherson With…