Sheena Easton may have invented the concept of the reality TV pop star, but how many of them went on to work with legends like Prince and Nile Rodgers? In…
Tina Turner – Break Every Rule box set review
\Initially failing to top the charts, Tina Turner’s Break Every Rule album gets a major remaster. Here’s what we thought of the reissue boxset… Following the career resuscitation of Private…
Top 20 girl groups
From the 1960s to the present day, We count down our Top 20 girl groups with a little help from artists including Betty Boo and Holly Johnson 20. SWV With…
Inspiral Carpets interview: “We were outsiders”
As the Inspiral Carpets prepare for an emotional first tour since the tragic death of drummer Craig Gill in 2016, the band reveal all about their days as outsiders in…
Tears For Fears’ The Hurting to be remastered for 40th anniversary
The Hurting, the debut studio album by Tears for Fears, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. To celebrate, it will be reissued on 12 May as an Abbey Road Half…
Madness interview: “We’ve collided together in a sandpit of joy on this new album”
No longer a nostalgia band, Madness have spent the past two decades assembling “new universes” of music to showcase their impeccable knack of knowing what makes people tick. In 2016,…
The story of Creation Records
Classic Pop recalls the history of Creation Records, the label that dominated the indie-pop landscape in the 1980s and 90s… By Paul Lester The 80s and 90s were a golden…
(CLOSED) Classic Pop Reader Survey 2023
We’ve got a huge prize bundle from Cooking Vinyl – worth £200 – up for grabs! To be in with a chance to win, just complete the Classic Pop 2023 Reader…
Popscene – acid house
The tabloids are in a lather about acid house, but it’s just great dance music at the end of the day… What is it? Though it was a movement that…
Tiffany interview: “I’m singing the best I’ve ever sung”
Ex-teen icon Tiffany tells all about her divorce-inspired new studio album Shadows and her love of trashy sci-fi flicks… By Will Simpson “Children be-haaave”. That’s what often first comes to…