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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POP UP

MORCHEEBA REVEAL THE FRUITS OF THEIR LOCKDOWN LABOURS

GARY KEMP COMPLETES SECOND SOLO LP

VOYAGE VOYAGE • DESIRELESS

PET SHOP BOYS RELIVE ROCKING RIO GIG

VINYL AND CASSETTES GROWTH HOLDS STEADY

LIQUIDIZER • JESUS JONES

BOWIE KEYS MAN SET FOR DURAN DURAN’S LATEST

TEN CITY REFORM AFTER 25 YEARS FOR CELEBRATORY NEW SINGLE

Q+A BOY MEETS GIRL • THE WHITNEY HOUSTON HITMAKERS ENJOYED A WORLDWIDE SMASH IN 1988 WITH WAITING FOR A STAR TO FALL. NOW THEY’RE BACK

STUART EDMONDS • CHECKING IN WITH OUR FAVOURITE CLASSIC POP-FRIENDLY PODCASTS

ASTLEY PUTS NEW ALBUM ON ICE

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z POP of P IS FOR … PSEUDONYMS • TAYLOR SWIFT HAS ONE. THE THOMPSON TWINS FOOLED EVERYONE WITH THEIRS. AND PAUL MCCARTNEY HAS MORE OF THEM THAN YOU COULD SHAKE A STICK AT. WHO DOESN’T LOVE A PSEUDONYM?

THIS MONTH IN POP MARCH 1985 • IN OUR ROUND-UP OF MARCH 1985’S MOST NEWSWORTHY POP MOMENTS, WHAM! MAKE IT BIG IN THE STATES, STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN ARRIVE WITH A BANG, BILLY JOEL MARRIES A SUPERMODEL AND PAUL SIMON EMBRACES WORLD MUSIC

A LIFE LESS ORDINARY • JAPAN BIOGRAPHER AND MUSICIAN ANTHONY REYNOLDS LOOKS AT THE ORIGINS OF THE FIVE-PIECE’S SEMINAL THIRD ALBUM QUIET LIFE AND THE LATEST 2021 DELUXE REISSUE WITH REFLECTIONS FROM BAND MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES

THE ORCHESTRAL TREATMENT

STEVE JANSEN: WIRED FOR SOUND

TO PLAY OR NOT TO PLAY…

SPELLBOUND • LOCKED DOWN IN HIS HOME STUDIO, FORMER JAPAN MEMBER RICHARD BARBIERI’S FOURTH SOLO ALBUM WASN’T AT ALL THE RECORD HE INTENDED TO MAKE…

BARBIERI’S PERSONAL BEST

“I’ve got hours and hours of unreleased music” • ONE OF POP’S MOST ELUSIVE COLLECTIVES, SCRITTI POLITTI DIDN’T PLAY LIVE FOR 26 YEARS AND HAVE RELEASED JUST FIVE ALBUMS SINCE FORMING IN 1977. IN A RARE INTERVIEW, FRONTMAN GREEN GARTSIDE TELLS CLASSIC POP ABOUT DISMISSING NOSTALGIA, HIS NEWFOUND LOVE OF PLAYING LIVE AND THE PROSPECT OF A SIXTH ALBUM.

Perfect introduction to Miles

Bedding down with the Manics

Solitary refinement

SUPER FAN • DEVOTED FANS SHOW US THEIR COLLECTIONS AND POP MEMORABILIA

LIKE A VIRGIN MADONNA • MADONNA BEGAN 1984 PROCLAIMING SHE WANTED TO RULE THE POP WORLD. AFTER ENLISTING NILE RODGERS TO HELP ELEVATE HER FROM THE CLUBS OF NEW YORK, BY THE YEAR’S END SHE WAS GRANTED HER WISH.

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

“THE GREATEST PERIOD IN HIP HOP WAS THE TIME BEFORE RECORDED RAP” • RUN-DMC TOOK HIP-HOP TO THE MAINSTREAM VIA CROSSOVER CLASSICS WALK THIS WAY AND IT’S TRICKY, BUT HAVE BEEN QUIET SINCE THE TRAGIC DEATH OF JAM MASTER JAY 19 YEARS AGO. NOW BACK WITH A NEW COMPILATION THAT CHARTS THEIR FORMATIVE INFLUENCES, RAPPER DMC DELVES INTO THE GROUP’S OWN EVOLUTION – AND REVEALS ALL ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE ADIDAS-CLAD GIANTS WITHOUT THEIR DJ.

HIP HOP NON STOP

ADAM ANT • FROM PUNK TO MATURE ACOUSTIC MOODS VIA FUNK AND VISIONARY POP, THE NINE OFFICIAL (AND ONE UNRELEASED) ADAM ANT ALBUMS HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL RIDE…

2021 The year ahead • AFTER THE UNCERTAINTIES OF 2020, WE TAKE A TENTATIVE LOOK AT WHAT’S ON THE MUSICAL HORIZON FOR THE NEXT 12 MONTHS

Fatal Attraction • DEL AMITRI ARE BACK WITH FATAL MISTAKES – THEIR FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 19 YEARS – AND ANY FANS WORRIED THIS MOST MISUNDERSTOOD OF BANDS MIGHT HAVE BEEN TEMPTED TO CHANGE THEIR GAME CAN REST EASY: “IF ANYONE CAN MAKE A GREAT DEL AMITRI RECORD, IT SHOULD BE US,”...