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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DUFFY’S POST-DURAN BAND THE HAWKS FINALLY TAKES FLIGHT

BOY GEORGE SET TO REVISIT TABOO PRODUCTION

ENO BROTHERS TO MAKE THEIR LIVE DEBUT

1 HIT WONDER

DURAN DURAN TALK UP NEW ALBUM FUTURE PAST

PET SHOP BOYS’ BANGING REMIX FOR PAUL WELLER

LOST & FOUND

PEPSI & SHIRLIE REVEAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

CLARE GROGAN READIES SOLO ALBUM DEBUT

Q+A KIM WILDE • MARKING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER UK DEBUT HIT KIDS IN AMERICA, KIM WILDE TALKS TO CLASSIC POP ABOUT A BRAND NEW AUDIOVISUAL GREATEST HITS PACKAGE

THE POD SQUAD • CHECKING IN WITH OUR FAVOURITE CLASSIC POP-FRIENDLY PODCASTS

ROGER TAYLOR DRUMS UP SUPPORT FOR NEW SOLO ALBUM

BONO SCORES WITH EURO 2020 ANTHEM

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z of POP • LAST ISSUE, I PONDERED THE SHORT-LIVED AND HIGHLY-INFLUENTIAL WORLD OF NEW POP. AND ONE FACET IN PARTICULAR BEGGED FURTHER INVESTIGATION: THE LINER NOTES.

THIS POP MONTH IN POP JULY 1987 • IN OUR ROUND-UP OF JUNE 1987’S BIGGEST MOMENTS IN POP, KYLIE MINOGUE AND RICK ASTLEY RELEASE THEIR DEBUT SINGLES, THE PET SHOP BOYS ENJOY THE NO.1 SPOT AND FUTURE STAR KATE NASH IS BORN…

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART

“I’M CREATIVE, OPTIMISTIC, BELLIGERENT. I’M BOY GEORGE, DARLING… • WHEN BOY GEORGE TURNED 60 IN JUNE, HE RELEASED 60 NEW SONGS TO MARK THE OCCASION AS HIS “CREATIVE DIWALI FESTIVAL”. MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, GEORGE’S NEW DECADE SEES ONE OF POP’S GREATEST PIONEERS AT EASE WITH BOTH HIS PAST AND FUTURE. WITH A NEW BIOPIC ON THE WAY, IS THE SINGER – WHISPER IT – COMFORTABLE? “IF I AM, IT’S A FIGHT,” HE TELLS US…

BOWERY WOW WOW

WILDE ABOUT THE BOY

MAKING HAY WITH CULTURE CLUB

BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME • JAM & LEWIS REDEFINED R&B AND POP, WORKING WITH JANET JACKSON, MARIAH CAREY, GEORGE MICHAEL AND A HOST OF OTHER GREATS. NOW, THEY’RE FINALLY MAKING THEIR OWN ALBUM AS ARTISTS. IN A RARE INTERVIEW, THEY TELL US ABOUT ACCIDENTALLY LAUNCHING JANET INTO MEGASTARDOM, OFFENDING THE HUMAN LEAGUE AND WHY THEY’VE NEVER HAD AN ARGUMENT.

ICONS OF LOVE

BEHAVIOUR PET SHOP BOYS • IN 1990, THE PET SHOP BOYS DECAMPED TO MUNICH INTENDING TO MAKE AN ALBUM OF “10 KYLIE MINOGUE SINGLES”. INSTEAD, THEY CREATED A MELANCHOLY CLASSIC INFORMED BY DEATH, INFIDELITY… AND THE MAN WHO WROTE AXEL F

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THE SONGS

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“I WANTED TO EXPLODE MY OWN MYTH” • THIRTY YEARS AGO, MADONNA INVITED CAMERAS BACKSTAGE, INTO HER DRESSING ROOM AND EVEN HER BED FOR TRUTH OR DARE, WHICH LIFTED THE LID ON WHAT WENT ON BEHIND THE SCENES OF ONE OF THE MOST SCANDALOUS TOURS OF ALL TIME

POSING THE QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE

PREFAB SPROUT • IN A CAREER SPANNING MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, PREFAB SPROUT HAVE EMBRACED PURE POP, FUNK, JAZZ AND OUT-THERE INSTRUMENTALS…

THOMPSON TWINS • THE MORNING BEFORE A GIG AT ASTON UNIVERSITY IN THE WINTER OF 1982, THOMPSON TWINS LARKED AROUND ON BIRMINGHAM'S GRAND UNION CANAL WITH PHOTOGRAPHER JUSTIN THOMAS

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

POPARAZZI • READERS SHARE THEIR FAVOURITE PHOTOS AS THEY GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN PLANET POP

TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 6 JULY 1986 • MADONNA HITS THE TOP SPOT, WHILE WHAM! SAY SAYONARA AND OWEN PAUL ENJOYS HIS ONLY CHART HIT…

“GOING SOLO? I SAID ‘SURE’… I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!” • WITH THREE OF HER ALBUMS NOW BEING GIVEN THE VINYL COLLECTABLE...