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Review: Tears For Fears – Songs For A Nervous Planet (Concord) ★★★★☆ As if Curt and Roland’s first ever official full live album isn’t enough, there’s an additional bonus EP…
Review: Kylie Minogue – Tension II (BMG)
Review: Kylie Minogue – Tension II (BMG) ★★★★☆ Sequel albums are rare, yet Kylie justifies her decision to return to the studio with Tension II – an intense nine-song blast…
Review: The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
Review: The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor/Fiction) ★★★★★ Some albums need more time to surface. Now, after 16 years, The Cure are back to break your heart…
Review: Alison Moyet – Key
Review: Alison Moyet – Key (Cooking Vinyl) ★★★★☆ After seven years, and despite minimal activity since, Alison Moyet loses none of her powers as she delves into her solo past…
Online Exclusive – Moseley Folk Festival Review
Moseley Folk & Arts Festival, Birmingham, 30 August to 1 September 2024 ★★★★☆ Classic Pop heads to a folk festival to find Dexys, Belle And Sebastian, and CMAT all kicking…
Review: Duran Duran re-release first five albums
Duran Duran re-release the first five albums has them sounding (mostly) shiny again… Duran Duran ★★★★★ Rio ★★★★★ Seven And The Ragged Tiger ★★★☆☆ Notorious ★★★★☆ Big Thing ★★★★☆ More…
ABBA Voyage – New album review
ABBA VOYAGE Polydor 7/10 Do they have it in them…? Well, that was the main concern when ABBA announced they’d reconvened and were back in the studio recording songs that…
Reissue review: Dire Straits: The Studio Albums 1978-1991
By their swansong On Every Street, Dire Straits were the punchline to jokes about yuppies and MTV, provoked by 1985’s Brothers In Arms, which went 14x platinum in Britain alone.…
Sunshine Walkers: The Best Of Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry
Album Review of Sunshine Walkers – The Best Of Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry K L Recording 7/10 Forming Katrina and the Waves after the first incarnation of The Soft…
Review: Wendy James – Queen High Straight
Here’s the latest release that we’ll be listening to at Classic Pop HQ this week – Wendy James – Queen High Straight. Wendy James – Queen High Straight 3.5/5 Wendy James’ renaissance…