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Matthew Lindsay
Matthew Lindsay is a regular contributor to Classic Pop Presents and has also written for The Quietus and mojo4music.com. He is the co-author of Tom Watkins’ Let’s Make Lots Of Money, long-listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize.
The New Romantics brought a burst of colour and style to a drab and depressing music scene in the first years of the 1980s… ‘Fame Fame Fame – what’s your…
The Stock Aitken Waterman Story
In this history of the hitmaking trio behind Kylie, Jason and Mel And Kim, we tell the Stock Aitken Waterman story… By 1984, Pete Waterman was already something of a…
Making Depeche Mode: Speak And Spell
Depeche Mode: Speak And Spell announced the arrival of one of the most important synth-pop bands of the 1980s. We look back on its making… It would have been hard…