Classic Pop

Classic Pop magazine is the ultimate celebration of great pop and chart music with star interviews, features, news and reviews. From pop to electronic and new wave, dance and indie – it's all here…

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KYLIE’S APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE FOR NEW LOCKDOWN ALBUM

HI-GLOSS • YOU’LL NEVER KNOW

SMITH’S WEIRD YEAR BEARS FRUIT

HURTS COME BACK FIGHTING

Q + A ROLAND GIFT • FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS RELEASED JUST TWO ALBUMS IN THEIR SHORT LIFE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE A LONG OVERDUE REISSUE. CLASSIC POP TALKS TO THE BAND’S FRONTMAN.

HOLLY KNIGHT • HOLLY KNIGHT

COVETED IVORS FELLOWSHIP FOR KATE BUSH

BARLOW’S HUMAN INTEREST ALBUM

Q + A HOWARD JONES • THE SYNTH-POP ICON DISCUSSES HIS RECENT LOCKDOWN CONCERT, PROGRESS ON A NEW STUDIO ALBUM AND THE REISSUE OF UNDERRATED FOURTH LONG-PLAYER, CROSS THAT LINE

No.4 DAN BULL & WILL WARREN • TRACK BY TRACK

KIWANUKA EYES A LIFE IN THE MOVIES

GREEN SHOOTS OF LIVE MUSIC RECOVERY

THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR STEPS

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z POP of L IS FOR… LOCATIONS POTTING • HAVING SPENT THE SUMMER INDOORS, I’VE HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT WHERE I’D RATHER BE. AND I’D RATHER BE IN A RECORD COVER… BUT WHICH ONE, AND HOW DO YOU GET THERE?

THIS MONTH IN POP NOVEMBER 1987 • IN OUR ROUND-UP OF NOVEMBER 1987’S BIGGEST MOMENTS IN MUSIC, GEORGE MICHAEL HITS THE TOP SPOT, BONO GETS IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW, SONNY & CHER REUNITE AND BOWIE TAKES HIS GLASS SPIDER TOUR DOWN UNDER

“It‘s a major achievement, … … the point at which we went beyond the 80s and moved away from our peers” • TEARS FOR FEARS’ FUTURE LOOKS AS BRIGHT AS CAN BE – THEY’VE NEARLY FINISHED THEIR FIRST LP IN A DECADE-AND-A-HALF. BEFORE THAT, THOUGH, IS A BOXSET OF THE CLASSIC 1989 ALBUM THE SEEDS OF LOVE, WHOSE CRAZED VISION IS THE STUFF OF LEGEND. IN THEIR ONLY INTERVIEW AS A DUO, ROLAND ORZABAL AND CURT SMITH TELL CLASSIC POP OF THE 80S’ LAST MASTERPIECE.

Phil rolls down

On her way up

The Mark of greatness

Q + A LA ROUX • LA ROUX WAS FLYING THE FLAG FOR NATIONAL ALBUM DAY THIS YEAR AS IT CELEBRATED HER FAVOURITE MUSICAL ERA. THE SYNTH-POP SINGER TELLS CP ABOUT SOME OF HER INSPIRATIONS.

THE LA’S • A TIMELESS CLASSIC THAT INSPIRED A THOUSAND IMITATORS BUT LEFT ITS CREATOR CLAIMING IT SOUNDS LIKE “A SNAKE WITH A BROKEN BACK”, THE LA’S IS A MUCH-MYTHOLOGISED DEBUT ALBUM. WE TELL THE STORY OF A MAN AT LOGGERHEADS WITH HIS PAST ALL THE TIME…

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

History IN THE MAKING • THEY ARE THE IDIOSYNCRATIC DUO THAT THREW GLAM ROCK, GOTH, B-MOVIE KITSCH, ELECTRO AND ART-POP INTO THE BLENDER TO FORM AN INTOXICATING STEW. NOW, AS SHAKESPEARS SISTER GET THE DELUXE BOXSET TREATMENT, SIOBHAN FAHEY AND MARCELLA DETROIT TALK CLASSIC POP THROUGH THEIR GENESIS STORY AND RECENT REUNION SHOWS.

Boxing clever

Different strokes

SADE • SHIFTING AN ASTONISHING 75 MILL ION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE, OVE THE PAST FOUR DECADES SADE HAVE FINESSED THEIR‘QUIETS TORM’ SOUND FOR THE MASSES

LIVE ALBUMS

COMPILATIONS

THE POWER AND THE GLORY • SYNTH-POP’S GOLDEN COUPLE, STEPHEN MORRIS AND GILLIAN GILBERT, HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 40 YEARS. AS A NEW BOXSET OF POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES MARKS THE MOMENT WHEN NEW ORDER COMPLETED THE TRANSFORMATION FROM JOY DIVISION, THE PAIR TELL CLASSIC POP THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LANDMARK ALBUM.

TALKING PICTURES

THINKING IN AND OUT OF THE BOX

ANOTHER OTHER TWO?

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN • PAYING HOMAGE TO THE BEATLES’ FINAL ROOFTOP CONCERT, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN LAUNCHED THEIR FIFTH ALBUM WITH A SKY-HIGH...