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Simple Minds
In Classic Pop Issue 62, we speak to Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill about the madness of Street Fighting Years and how they’re planning to return to their…
UMC to release new Simple Minds boxset of ‘Street Fighting Years’
Street Fighting Years was the band’s fourth number one album in the UK and featured their first UK number one single, Belfast Child… On 6 March, UMC will release a box…
Issue 58 of Classic Pop is on sale now
In the latest issue, we have an exclusive interview with synth pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark as they celebrate 40 years of marrying art with pop. Elsewhere, we welcome…
Andy Wright Interview: Orchestral Manoeuvres
Andy Wright started his career as a synth and drum machine programmer in the 80s, and is now both Simply Red and Simple Minds’ regular producer. There was simply only…
Issue 48 of Classic Pop is on sale now!
Get your copy of Issue 48 in-store for just £5.99 – use our storefinder. The single issue is available online for £6.99 here. Alternatively, you can buy a digital issue…
Review: Simple Minds Grandslam ’18, Coventry live
Wham, bam… It’s Grandslam, as two much-loved Scottish acts and a great pretender from America are sent to Coventry – one for the very first time… Delving back into Simple…
When Pop Went Political: Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert
Staged to show solidarity with the world’s most famous political prisoner, while concurrently expressing opposition to an overtly racist system, the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert – held three…
Simple Minds – Walk Between Worlds review
That Simple Minds trade in instantly familiar methodology has, at times, left them sounding predictable. Though 2014’s Big Music – with its great, big, you-can’t- miss-it signpost of a title…