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Pete Wylie reflects on his career as a pop maverick One of the great mavericks of alternative pop, it’s taken 40 years for Pete Wylie to create a definitive guide…
Black Grape – Orange Head interview
Black Grape’s Shaun Ryder and Kermit return with new album Shaun Ryder made the ultimate comeback in the mid-90s with Black Grape. Now 30 years on from their formation, Shaun…
Bananarama Glorious Interview
As Bananarama prepare for the release of Glorious – The Ultimate Collection, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin reflects with Classic Pop on how they have overcome everything the industry could…
Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise? Interview
J. J. Jeczalik and Gary Langan reflect on the formation of Art Of Noise In 1984, Art Of Noise unwittingly created some of the most memorable tunes by maxing out…
Tom Bailey reflects on the Thompson Twins’ Into The Gap
The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey looks back at the band’s fourth studio album Into The Gap The Thompson Twins released their fourth long-player, Into The Gap, in February 1984. Here,…
Jim Kerr interview: 40 years of Simple Minds’ Sparkle In The Rain
Simple Minds’ frontman Jim Kerr looks back on their bombastic Sparkle In The Rain album To many Simple Minds fans, 1984’s Sparkle In The Rain album was a marker in the…
Nik Kershaw interview – The Riddle
Nik Kershaw – The Riddle Nik Kershaw started 1984 with one album – Human Racing – and finished it with another – The Riddle. Here, he talks about the pressures…
Eddy Grant interview: “Music is a great doctor”
A trailblazer since the mid-60s, Eddy Grant is one of pop’s great survivors. In this exclusive interview, the singer-songwriter reveals all about his near-fatal heart attack, taking on Donald Trump…
Will Sergeant interview: “I wanted us to have a classic rock sound”
Echo & The Bunnymen mainstay Will Sergeant has scribed his second memoir, which charts the band’s rapid rise to pop stardom and reveals chance encounters with rock royalty along the…
Run-DMC Interview – “The greatest period in hip-hop was the time before recorded rap”
Run-DMC took hip-hop to the mainstream VIA crossover classics Walk This Way and It’s Tricky, but split after the death of Jam Master Jay in 2002. In 2021, rapper DMC…