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Oliver Hurley
Oliver Hurley has written about pop music in its many guises for, among others, Classic Pop, The Independent, The Big Issue, Total Guitar and BT TV, as a result of which he was once offered a custard cream by Meat Loaf. He has also been the editor of the videogames website GamesRadar, and the production editor of Homes & Antiques magazine and the English Heritage Members' Magazine. In between all that, he has written books on pro wrestling and pubs. Away from staring at a computer screen all day, he enjoys running, Thai boxing and playing rudimentary bass guitar.
In 2018, Moby released Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt, a return to the soulful electronica of the seminal LP Play. That year, he told us what inspired the record,…
Tony Hadley interview: “The 80s were pretty good, but there’s some fantastic music out there today”
In 2017, Tony Hadley left Spandau Ballet. Less than a year, he was back with a solo album, Talking To The Moon. That year, he talked us through that turbulent…
Bomb The Bass Interview: ‘All of a sudden I was in the job that I’d always dreamed about doing’
Tim Simenon, AKA Bomb The Bass, created one of the most important dance singles of the late 80s. Before he knew it, the young London DJ had become an accidental…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
With Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe created a melancholy classic informed by death and infidelity… Neil Tennant remembers the moment clearly: it was September 1988 when…