Mark Lindores looks back at Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome, a double album that sold a quarter of a million copies in its first week… Exploding onto…
Making The Cure: Disintegration
On their eighth album, The Cure: Disintegration, the band turned their backs on the skewed brand of pop that had yielded a succession of hits, and opted instead for doom-laden…
INXS music to soundtrack new short film
A new short film is set to be soundtracked by the songs of INXS. Original Sin – The 7 Sins drops on 16 July on the Veeps streaming platform and…
Japan: Quiet Life – A Retrospective
Japan biographer and musician Anthony Reynolds looks at the origins of Japan: Quiet Life and the latest 2021 deluxe reissue with reflections from band members and associates… In early 1979,…
Marc Almond interview (Exclusive)
Recently, Marc Almond has been talking of retirement. Are we really about to see one of our best-loved stars stride towards the exit? The former Soft Cell vocalist tells all…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Electric
What started out as a possible electronic side-project soon became Pet Shops Boys: Electric… By John Earls According to Neil Tennant, Pet Shop Boys have twice written the perfect pop…
Erasure Interview: Turn On The Bright Lights
It’s nearly four decades since Erasure’s debut single Who Needs Love Like That, but Andy Bell and Vince Clarke sound as youthful as ever on their latest studio album, the…
Making Japan: Tin Drum
Japan: Tin Drum was an album that announced big changes from the group with a more mature, haunting new groove beating at its heart. Classic Pop discovers how David Sylvian…
Sinitta and Leee John among stars for new covers album Re-Discovered
A host of 80s stars have come together to a new album for a new album of covers titled Re-Discovered. Sinitta, Leee John, Junior, Doris Pearson, Kiki Dee, Kym Mazelle, Owen…
LCD Soundsystem live album to get 10th anniversary re-release
DFA Records are to mark the 10th anniversary of LCD Soundsystem’s long-out-of-print live album The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden with a new pressing. The original LP…