Posts by author
Steve O'Brien
Steve O’Brien is a writer who specialises in music, film and TV. He has written for magazines and websites such as SFX, The Guardian, Radio Times, Esquire, The New Statesman, Digital Spy, Empire, Yours Retro, The New Statesman and MusicRadar. He’s written books about Doctor Who and Buffy The Vampire Slayer and has even featured on a BBC4 documentary about Bergerac. Apart from his work on Classic Pop, he also edits CP’s sister magazine, Vintage Rock Presents.
www.steveobrienwriter.com
www.steveobrienwriter.com
Classic Pop takes a look at The Mod Revival which brought back the sharp-suited 60s subcultural movement for the 70s and 80s Fuelled by the music of bands such as…
Album Insight: Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental
Twenty years on from Please, the Pet Shop Boys went back to their roots by teaming up with the most in-demand producer of the 1980s, Trevor Horn, for Fundamental The…
Album Insight – Pet Shop Boys’ Super
Described by Neil Tennant as “the most ‘up’ record” the duo have ever released, Pet Shop Boys’ Super embraces house music… By the 2010s, most bands that had been together…
Breaking the fourth wall with Thomas Dolby
In the 80s Thomas Dolby was the mad professor of synth, now turned actual professor. Classic Pop joins one of music’s most cerebral artists to talk academia, AI, musical resurrections…
Popscene: Europop
Classic Pop takes a look at Europop – the feelgood genre that doesn’t take itself too seriously… Isn’t it just typical of the UK to refer to Europop as something…
Shaznay Lewis – Pages interview
Twenty years on from her solo debut, Shaznay Lewis is back with belated sophomore album Pages. We spoke to her about going it alone and whether All Saints really are…
Gabrielle – A Place In Your Heart interview
It’s been 31 years since the record-breaking Dreams hit big, now with her many-flavoured new album A Place In Your Heart, Gabrielle is back… If there’s any barometer of Gabrielle’s…
Popscene: New Jack Swing
Classic Pop takes a look at new jack swing – the urban sound that fused funk and soul with hip-hop and jazz to revolutionise American R&B. Few genres epitomise early-90s…
Popscene: Ambient Music
Classic Pop celebrates Ambient music: the mood-enhancing sounds that soothe our fevered brows… What is it? Some might say that ambient has little right being in a pop magazine. Pop,…
Dee C Lee – Just Something interview
A one-time member of Wham! and The Style Council, as well as a solo artist, Dee C Lee had one of the most soulful voices in 80s pop. In 2024,…