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Artist Features & Interviews
As Dexys return with their much-anticipated sixth studio album, mainstay Kevin Rowland tells Classic Pop why he felt the time was right to submit to The Feminine Divine… By Dan…
Q&A – Chris Difford: “As you get older, things kind of become slightly more complicated”
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE We talk to songwriter and long-time Squeeze member Chris Difford about food banks, autobiographies, TED Talks and his band’s upcoming 50th anniversary… By Dave Freak It’s 50 years…
Pet Shop Boys interview – SMASH the system
In June 2023, Pet Shop Boys released what’s possibly their ultimate statement – SMASH, a boxset of all their singles. But, in the 2020s, what is a single? What’s the…
Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz interview: “CBGBs was a wonderful incubator for baby bands”
One of the great love stories in music, as well as one of its finest rhythm sections, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz are preparing to share their memories of life…
Haircut 100 interview: “We always had the confidence that we were something special”
Shiny enough to have their own comic strip and potential TV sitcom, Haircut 100 were also an odd mix of six diverse personalities, incorporating post-punk, jazz, Brazilian rhythms and martial…
Sparks interview: Too latte for goodbyes
Classic Pop talks to Sparks about their latest album, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte Sparks adore their coffee, so it was perhaps inevitable that one day they’d write…
Interview: Harry Wayne Casey of KC And The Sunshine Band
Dave Freak talks to Harry Wayne Casey, longtime frontman of KC And The Sunshine Band Formed by Harry Wayne Casey in the early 70s in Florida, with KC And The…
Alannah Currie interview: “For a couple of years the three of us had a real laugh”
In this archive interview from 2017, Thompson Twins’ Alannah Currie remembers the band’s early days… By Jenny Valentish Behind the imposing doorway of the Sisters HQ in Borough, south London,…
Jazzie B interview: “Music was so stale and stagnant when Soul II Soul came along… we caused a stir“
With the positive slogan “A happy face, a thumpin’ bass, for a lovin’ race” Soul II Soul – and its founder Jazzie B – set out to spread joy around…
Depeche Mode interview: “We’ve always remained a cult thing”
In this archive interview from 2017, Rudy Bolly catches up with Dave Gahan and Martin Gore to talk about the 14th album from Depeche Mode – Spirit Depeche Mode certainly…