In the late 70s and 80s, Adam Ant bridged the gap between punk and pop. Here’s Classic Pop’s list of the best Adam Ant songs… 20 Friends (1979) Although Friends…
Top 40 Depeche Mode songs
In our list of the top Depeche Mode songs we count down from 40 to 1, spanning a career that’s lasted more than four decades… As evidenced by the vastly…
Album By Album – Kate Bush
A rundown of all the Kate Bush albums, from 1978’s The Kick Inside to 2016’s Before The Dawn… By Mark Lindores The Kick Inside Released 1978 Label EMI Chart position…
Top 15 Electropop Albums
In our list of the best electropop albums, we look back at 40-plus years of cutting edge music… By Oliver Hurley 15 HEAVEN 17 – PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT (1981) The debut…
Eurythmics: Annie Lennox interview
In this exclusive Eurythmics interview from 2018, we talk to Annie Lennox about her and Dave Stewart’s relationship, their music, their 40-year career and the future of their partnership… By…
Top 15 Sophisti-Pop Albums
By mixing elements of jazz, R&B and soul, a new wave of artist emerged during the mid-80s, bringing with them a certain cultured elegance to the charts. Here is our…
Happy Mondays interview
In this Happy Mondays interview from 2017, we speak to charismatic frontman Shaun Ryder, plus fellow survivors Mark Day and Rowetta…Â Every decade gets the double bill of bands it…
Making Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
In 1980 Dexys Midnight Runners arrived with their debut LP, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, an album that reinvented American soul through a gritty British lens… By Gary Tipp…
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…
Belinda Carlisle interview
In this Belinda Carlisle interview, the erstwhile Go-Go looks back at 1986’s Belinda, 1991’s Live Your Life Be Free and 1996’s A Woman & A Man Belinda Carlisle had offers…