From mixing Wham! fans in West End Girls through Neil realising he could sing to being terrified of Dusty, and recording three No.1s in a year, here’s the oft-untold studio…
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,…
Q&A: 90s dance duo D:REAM
Peter Cunnah was the tartan-suited frontman, Al Mackenzie the DJ; club buddies who became pop stars and yes 90s dance duo D:REAM wrote that epoch-defining hit… But there is a…
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,…
Pop Art – Wham! and George Michael
As young guns George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley arrived in the UK charts in 1982 with a fresh sound and image that stood apart yet borrowed from many genres. It…
Starsailor – Where The Wild Things Grow Interview
James Walsh, singer for Warrington’s indie stalwarts Starsailor, reflects on the band’s career and takes us to a place Where The Wild Things Grow… Starsailor made an epic return with…
Top 20 hip-hop singles of the 80s
Emerging straight outta the Bronx in the summer of 1973, hip-hop has come a long way since its humble beginnings, with the 80s being a particularly fertile period for the…
The story of disco music
Classic Pop looks back at the rise, fall and rebirth of a magical era in popular culture: The story of disco music… During the summer of 1979 disco dominated the…