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Top 20 Comeback Singles: Great comebacks aren’t just reserved for sporting heroes, they’re also the stuff of legend in the pop music world… Music history reveals that even the most…
Words & Pictures: Duran Duran dip into the archives
Words & Pictures: Duran Duran Duran Duran’s celebrated first five albums defined the sound and style of an era and continue to soundtrack the lives of millions of fans around…
Popscene: New Jack Swing
Classic Pop takes a look at new jack swing – the urban sound that fused funk and soul with hip-hop and jazz to revolutionise American R&B. Few genres epitomise early-90s…
Popscene: Ambient Music
Classic Pop celebrates Ambient music: the mood-enhancing sounds that soothe our fevered brows… What is it? Some might say that ambient has little right being in a pop magazine. Pop,…
Pop Art – Wham! and George Michael
As young guns George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley arrived in the UK charts in 1982 with a fresh sound and image that stood apart yet borrowed from many genres. It…
Top 20 No.1s that owed a debt to the 80s
The 80s didn’t stop in 1989, oh no. In the world of music, the last few decades have leaned heavily on that classic decade. Classic Pop looks at the Top…
Top 20 B-sides of the 80s
We remember some of the best B-sides of the 80s… By Barry Page It’s easy to forget in today’s era of streaming and downloading just what a treasure trove of…
Top 20 80s house hits
Our countdown of the best house hits of the 80s… House music may have been initially dismissed as a cult concern by the nation’s one-time ultimate tastemaker Radio 1, but…
Classic Album: Adam And The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Left without any band members following a Malcolm McClaren-led mutiny, Adam regrouped stronger than ever and made the seemingly unlikely transformation from leather-clad abrasive post-punks to vibrant chart darlings with Kings…
Essential Prince In The 90s
Classic Pop presents its essential guide to Prince in the 90s… The dawn of the 90s found Prince in a state of uncertainty. Batman had been a big success, yet…