With Moby: Play, the dance wunderkind finally produced an album that made him a superstar… It seems impossible to believe now, but when Moby’s fifth album hit the shelves on…
Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs
We count down our favourites in this list of the Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs… We’ve put together more than our fair share of Top 40s over the years…
Making Sparks: No.1 In Heaven
With Sparks: No.1 In Heaven, Ron and Russell Mael delivered an album which, while not performing well commercially, would prove one of their most influential records… By Mark Lindores A…
Pet Shop Boys singles – The Top 40
Classic Pop picks out the best Pet Shop Boys singles, from 1984 to 2016… Pet Shop Boys are one of pop’s most successful duos of all time – national treasures,…
Making Wham!: Make It Big
Wham!: Make It Big saw George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley embrace a poppier sound and a more colourful image. It cost them credibility, but earned them their rightful place as…
Matt Goss to release new single Somewhere To Fall
Bros singer Matt Goss is set to return to the UK after more than a decade in Vegas and he has his eyes set on chart success with new single…
Forget Me Nots: Transvision Vamp – Little Magnets Versus The Bubble Of Babble
Transvision Vamp had the world at their feet after reaching No.1 with second LP, Velveteen. But thanks to the vicious music press and an interfering record company, its follow-up, Little…
Kim Wilde interview
In this Kim Wilde interview, the pop legend talks to Classic Pop about a brand new audiovisual Greatest Hits package. By Lois Wilson Kim Wilde is the most-charted British female…
Top 20 greatest foreign-language singles of the 80s
Our run-down of the best foreign-language singles of the 1980s… By Jon O’Brien As a whole, the UK’s record buyers have been stubbornly resistant to anything outside their native tongue.…
Making Talking Heads: Remain In Light
Talking Heads’ Remain In Light remains the art-rock quartet’s signature album. By Gary Tipp During the early part of their career Talking Heads were inextricably linked to the Ramones. Admittedly,…