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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...
Back in 2015, one-time Pop Idol winner Will Young could be found on 85% Proof, winding up Thank You, about his ex, with the simple edict: “Fuck you”. Four years…
Review: Hot Chip – A Bath Full Of Ecstasy
To some, Hot Chip have always been pioneers of sensitive indie club-pop, while, to others, there’s something irksome about their inherent anxiety, as well as a sense they’re trying too…
Review: Aurora – A Different Kind Of Human
Given to eccentric pronouncements about collecting dead insects and watching Avatar every day, Aurora Aksnes has cultivated a cunningly alien, elfin look, ice-blue eyes framed by a sci-fi fringe and,…
Review: The Divine Comedy – Office Politics
If you consider Neil Hannon too clever for his own good, then starting his 12th collection by declaring “I jump the queue/ ‘cause I’m smarter than you” won’t help his…
Review: Mark Ronson – Late Night Feelings
Sometimes a simple phrase captures the public imagination. Think of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow’s “conscious uncoupling”, or Dominic Cummings’ “Take back control”. To these, add “sad bangers”, which Mark…
Review: Kaiser Chiefs – Duck
Just over a decade ago, Kaiser Chiefs prepared for their third album’s imminent release, Off With Their Heads, with a riotous sold-out show at Leeds United’s Elland Road. This summer,…
Stephen Duffy Interview: ‘I appreciate the past but I’ve never been nostalgic’
He left Duran Duran before they hit big and only ever achieved two Top 20 hits in his career. But why is the man formerly known as Stephen ‘Tin Tin’…
Issue 55 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now!
In the latest issue of Classic Pop magazine we have a world exclusive with Adam Ant as he prepares for a full-album tour of his experimental solo debut Friend Or…
Reissue: Janet Jackson – Control
The recent reappearance of über-producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on a track with Sounds Of Blackness felt like a nostalgia kick, a blast from the past – and yet…
Reissue: Shakespears Sister – Singles Party (1988-2019)
Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit delve into their back catalogue for this career-spanning singles retrospective… It rarely augurs well when an artist launches a new musical project primarily to show…