In 1983 the charts were alive with some of the most effervescent pop music ever produced. Classic Pop remembers a truly vintage year for music… If you want more on…
Sam Brown interview: “I don’t want to criticise anyone who wants to look like a doll”
How Sam Brown came back from the silence (with a little help from ukuleles)… Back in 1989, Sam Brown whisked her way to the top with the anthemic single Stop!…
Tom Bailey interview: “It can be harder to write pop when you’re older”
Previously a cult proposition across the albums A Product Of… and Set, US hit In The Name Of Love inspired Tom Bailey to transform Thompson Twins from a seven-piece cult…
Classic Album: The Police – Synchronicity
Releasing a worldwide smash and becoming the biggest band on the planet would bring instant gratification to most artists, but for Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, aka The Police,…
No smoke without fire: The 80s rebirth of David Bowie
After a few years out of the spotlight, a bleached-blond Bowie returned in 1983 with Let’s Dance and achieved greater global fame than ever before. Classic Pop charts the moment…
Nick Beggs interview: “Limahl became untenable pretty quickly. He was a difficult character.”
In the 40 years since Too Shy became a smash, Nick Beggs has played with ABC, Belinda Carlisle and Howard Jones, as well as being a distinctive bass presence in…
Thompson Twins / Tom Bailey – album by album
We look back on the albums of Thompson Twins and their frontman Tom Bailey… A Product Of… (Participation), 1981 The Thompson Twins were never two. Once they were four, now they…
The story of ZTT
Radio bans, terrorists and girls dressed in leather… As record labels go, ZTT was anything but boring. In this feature from the CP archives, we spoke to the major…
Classic Album: Talking Heads – Speaking In Tongues
Talking Heads finally completed their transition to pure funk, and reach commercial peaks with one of their most expansive, fully-realised and danceable records – Speaking In Tongues Fans of Scooby…
The rise of Madonna
Before 1983 few people in America – let alone the world – had heard of Madonna Ciccone. but that was soon to change… On 9 January 1983 Madonna Louise Ciccone…