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From the affordable, through to the eye-wateringly expensive and the virtually unattainable, we present our Top 20 Rare & Collectable records… Words by Barry Page While streaming may have had…
Classic Pop Issue 87 is on sale now!
In the new issue of Classic Pop – as a definitive Blitz club compilation is finally released – we round up a star-studded cast including Boy George, Rusty Egan, Gary…
OMD interview: “Andy pulls one way, I pull the other. Where we meet in the middle – that’s the OMD sound.”
Cementing an imperious run that stretches back over the past decade, OMD’s album Bauhaus Staircase completes a hat-trick of magnificence started with English Electric in 2013. It even proves Andy…
Album By Album – OMD
The synth-pop icons who mastered the blend of experimentalism and melody… Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, 1980 Thanks to Liverpool’s hosting of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, 2023 has already…
Classic Pop Issue 84 is on sale now!
In the latest issue of Classic Pop we have an exclusive full band interview with Duran Duran who reveal all about their Halloween-themed new album Danse Macabre that features covers,…
OMD unveil new song Bauhaus Staircase and share upcoming album details
Six years since the release of their critically-acclaimed, Top 4-charting The Punishment Of Luxury, synth pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark return with their brand new studio album Bauhaus Staircase…
OMD interview: “It’s the best job in the world”
In 2013, OMD were enjoying renewed success with the old line-up of the band, but then tragedy struck. Four years after that, in 2017, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys talked…
Some kind of wonderful – the music of John Hughes
The movies of John Hughes featured some of the hippest artists of the 80s. As a boxset is released featuring tracks from many of his big screen classics, we meet…
The Lowdown – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
When they started out, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark wanted to be an act that combined Stockhausen electronic innovations with ABBA’s perfect pop sensibilities. Over a career spanning almost well…
Classic Album: OMD – Architecture & Morality
Merging the machinations of German electronica with warm Merseyside melodies and otherworldly choral samples, on their third album, Architecture & Morality, OMD struck the perfect balance between experimentalism and commercial…