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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…
Making ABBA: Arrival
Transformed into a slick hit-making machine, ABBA: Arrival found the band at the peak of their powers across a landmark album that can be seen as a benchmark for great…
Top 40 Depeche Mode songs
In our list of the top Depeche Mode songs we count down from 40 to 1, spanning a career that’s lasted more than four decades… As evidenced by the vastly…
Issue 71 of Classic Pop is on sale now!
In the latest Classic Pop, we have a world exclusive interview with Soft Cell as they announce new studio album *Happiness Not Included – their first for 17 years –…
Top 15 Electropop Albums
In our list of the best electropop albums, we look back at 40-plus years of cutting edge music… By Oliver Hurley 15 HEAVEN 17 – PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT (1981) The debut…
Top 15 Sophisti-Pop Albums
By mixing elements of jazz, R&B and soul, a new wave of artist emerged during the mid-80s, bringing with them a certain cultured elegance to the charts. Here is our…
Making Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
In 1980 Dexys Midnight Runners arrived with their debut LP, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, an album that reinvented American soul through a gritty British lens… By Gary Tipp…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
With Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe created a melancholy classic informed by death and infidelity… Neil Tennant remembers the moment clearly: it was September 1988 when…
Making Tears For Fears: The Hurting
In 1983 Tears For Fears’ The Hurting introduced the world to a band that blended bleak musings on the long-term effects of childhood trauma with a razor-sharp synth-pop instinct. The…
Making a-ha: Hunting High And Low
a-ha: Hunting High And Low is one of the finest synth-pop albums of all time, and one of the most successful debuts ever. Here Classic Pop speaks to the band’s…