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Tony Hadley interview: “With Spandau it ceased to be fun anymore”
In this Tony Hadley interview from 2021, the former Spandau Ballet man belatedly toasts four decades of music with a mammoth 36-date UK tour featuring The Fabulous TH Band in…
Top 20: Ones That Got Away
We lift the lid on an alternate pop universe to tell the story of how these Top 20 hits could have turned out very differently if fate hadn’t intervened… Creating…
Top 20 Greatest Singles by 80s Actors
Not content with fame in movies and TV, many 80s actors tried their hand at making pop songs… Actors moonlighting as pop stars wasn’t strictly an 80s development. Who can…
Andy Bell Talks Erasure: ABBA-esque
Erasure: ABBA-esque was a 1992 EP of ABBA cover versions that helped revitalise the Swedes’ fortunes ahead of Mamma Mia! et al. Erasure’s Andy Bell talks frankly about the ABBA…
The Story Of Now That’s What I Call Music
Now That’s What I Call Music! was many people’s introduction to chart music when they were young. Classic Pop traces the story of the big daddy of all compilation series……
Top 40 synth-pop songs
In our list of the greatest synth-pop songs of all time, we count down from 40 to 1. The plan? To decide upon the greatest synth-pop singles of all time.…
The Story Of The New Romantics
The New Romantics brought a burst of colour and style to a drab and depressing music scene in the first years of the 1980s… ‘Fame Fame Fame – what’s your…
The Stock Aitken Waterman Story
In this history of the hitmaking trio behind Kylie, Jason and Mel And Kim, we tell the Stock Aitken Waterman story… By 1984, Pete Waterman was already something of a…
The Bristol Sound – How The West Was Won
The Bristol Sound is a melting pot of genres that reflects the city’s varied cultural cornerstones – and in the 90s, it became a world-beating brand… Music journalists and cultural…
Dead Or Alive: Pete Burns – his final interview
As the lead singer of Dead Or Alive, Pete Burns was one of pop’s most arresting figures. In 2016, on the eve of the release of a Dead Or Alive…