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Pet Shop Boys
On the 30th anniversary of its release, we discover how the Pet Shop Boys’ second album was informed by Thatcherism, a 60s singer living in a motel, Catholicism and ZZ…
Classic Pop Issue 33 is on sale now!
Issue 33 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now! Available from WH Smith, Tesco, Waitrose, independent newsagents and Eason, In Issue 33, the cover feature looks at the rise,…
Pet Shop Boys – Nightlife, Release and Fundamental review
Tennant and Lowe kick-start mammoth project featuring expanded reissues of some of their best work… a treasure trove of goodies for PSB fans Parlophone 4/5 These three Pet Shop Boys…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 15-11
15 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Enola Gay Not OMD’s biggest chart hit – even Locomotion got higher – but their most well-loved. Possibly because it summed up everything that…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 30-26
The Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 30 Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The Power of Love While Relax and Two Tribes, the first two Frankie singles, are remembered…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 90-86
90 Eurythmics: Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox couldn’t have been a more apt duo to record the 1984 movie soundtrack, having already filmed their Orwellian nightmares for…
Pet Shop Boys Top 25 Countdown
Pet Shop Boys Top 25… Buy the issue 1 App or Android/Desktop edition with full Pet Shop Boys feature 25-16 25. Always On My Mind from Introspective, 1988 – Pet Shop…
Issue 3 of Classic Pop is on sale now!
Issue 3 of Classic Pop is in the shops now in the UK, USA and Europe. And from the response we’ve had from readers already, we’re not alone in saying…
Classic Pop Best Compilation Award: Mark Reeder – Five Point One
Mark Reeder’s new album as been dubbed Classic Pop’s ‘Best Compilation Award’ in issue two. Mark Reeder has been on the music scene since the late 70s, playing alongside Mick…
Pet Shop Boys Top 25 Countdown – 5-1
Buy the issue 1 App or Android/Desktop edition with full Pet Shop Boys feature TOP 5 5. Later Tonight from Please, 1986 – This dolorous song from Please, permeated by an air…