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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...
By mixing elements of jazz, R&B and soul, a new wave of artist emerged during the mid-80s, bringing with them a certain cultured elegance to the charts. Here is our…
Making Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
In 1980 Dexys Midnight Runners arrived with their debut LP, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, an album that reinvented American soul through a gritty British lens… By Gary Tipp…
Making Tears For Fears: The Hurting
In 1983 Tears For Fears’ The Hurting introduced the world to a band that blended bleak musings on the long-term effects of childhood trauma with a razor-sharp synth-pop instinct. The…
Making a-ha: Hunting High And Low
a-ha: Hunting High And Low is one of the finest synth-pop albums of all time, and one of the most successful debuts ever. Here Classic Pop speaks to the band’s…
National Album Day celebrates women in music
National Album Day returns for its fourth edition on Saturday 16 October, and this year will spotlight women artists and their huge contribution to music and culture through the art of…
S’Express: Mark Moore interview
As the leader of S’Express, Mark Moore was one of the biggest names in dance music in the late 80s and early 90s. In this exclusive interview, he explains the…
Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs
We count down our favourites in this list of the Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs… We’ve put together more than our fair share of Top 40s over the years…
Making Sparks: No.1 In Heaven
With Sparks: No.1 In Heaven, Ron and Russell Mael delivered an album which, while not performing well commercially, would prove one of their most influential records… By Mark Lindores A…
Matt Goss to release new single Somewhere To Fall
Bros singer Matt Goss is set to return to the UK after more than a decade in Vegas and he has his eyes set on chart success with new single…
Forget Me Nots: Transvision Vamp – Little Magnets Versus The Bubble Of Babble
Transvision Vamp had the world at their feet after reaching No.1 with second LP, Velveteen. But thanks to the vicious music press and an interfering record company, its follow-up, Little…