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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The Pets are feeling Relentless all over again, 30 years on

Life-enhancing album and tour from Take That trio

HORN’S SOLO LP HAS ECHOES OF THE PAST

ETERNAL REUNION HITS THE SKIDS AFTER BANDMATES’ ROW

Q+A LOL TOLHURST • AS A BRAND NEW ALBUM AND SECOND BOOK HIT THE SHELVES, THE CURE’S FORMER DRUMMER TAKES TIME OUT OF HIS PACKED SCHEDULE TO TALK TO CLASSIC POP

ARENA TOUR WILL PROMOTE NEW BLUNT ALBUM

1-HIT WONDER

DEE C. LEE JOGS YOUR MEMORY WITH COMEBACK

LOST & FOUND

POP FAVOURITES UNVEIL 2024 TOUR DATES

My POP life • THE ACTOR AND STAND-UP REFLECTS ON HOW HIS EARLY MUSIC TASTES WERE INFORMED BY A LOVE OF PRINCE

Q+A KENNY THOMAS • NORTH LONDON’S FINEST BLUE-EYED SOULSTER HAS ROLLED WITH LIFE’S PUNCHES AND RETURNED WITH A CAREER-SPANNING BEST OF

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z of POP • TO MANY, THEY’RE THROW-AWAY. OTHERS MIGHT NEVER HAVE LISTENED TO THEM AT ALL. BUT ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS POP MUSIC FROM THE 80S HAS ENDURED IS THE B-SIDE.

THIS MONTH IN POP • MORRISSEY ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT THE SPIRIT WORLD AND MADCHESTER TAKES OVER TOP OF THE POPS

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART

"SO MANY HORRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, YOU NEED A LITTLE LEVITY"

SCOUNDREL DAYS A-HA • THE DARK SOPHOMORE LONG-PLAYER THAT’S MORE SMASHING PUMPKINS THAN SMASH HITS

Final messages? • CEMENTING AN IMPERIOUS RUN THAT STRETCHES BACK OVER THE PAST DECADE, OMD’S NEW ALBUM BAUHAUS STAIRCASE COMPLETES A HAT-TRICK OF MAGNIFICENCE STARTED WITH ENGLISH ELECTRIC IN 2013. IT EVEN PROVES ANDY MCCLUSKEY AND PAUL HUMPHREYS DON’T NEED TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM AFTER ALL TO LIVE UP TO PAST GLORIES. SO WHY ARE THE DUO THINKING OF CALLING IT A DAY IN THE STUDIO?

DEPECHE MODE • THE BASILDON BAND EVOLVED FROM CAREFREE POP PIN-UPS TO DARK ELECTRONIC OVERLORDS IN A PIONEERING CAREER THAT HAS TAKEN SYNTH MUSIC TO NEW STADIUM-SIZED HEIGHTS

STARS ON 45 • AS UB40 CELEBRATE 45 YEARS OF NOT HAVING TO SIGN ON, ROBIN CAMPBELL AND JIMMY BROWN TELL CLASSIC POP WHY THEY’RE STILL A BAND OF BROTHERS – JUST NOT WITH THAT BROTHER...

MESSAGE MAN • A TRAILBLAZER SINCE THE MID-60S, EDDY GRANT IS ONE OF POP’S GREAT SURVIVORS. AS HE’S HONOURED BY THE CAMDEN MUSIC WALK OF FAME, THE SINGER-SONGWRITER REVEALS ALL ABOUT HIS NEAR-FATAL HEART ATTACK, TAKING ON DONALD TRUMP AND HOW HE’S BEEN UNAFRAID TO MAKE HITS OUT OF POLITICALLY-CHARGED SUBJECT MATTER...

THE STYLE COUNCIL MODERNISM: A NEW DECADE • THE STYLE COUNCIL’S FIFTH AND FINAL STUDIO EFFORT MODERNISM: A NEW DECADE TOOK ON NEAR-MYTHICAL STATUS WHEN IT WAS SHELVED BY THE BAND’S LABEL JUST BEFORE ITS PLANNED 1989 RELEASE. SO WERE THE FEARS OVER THEIR SUDDEN SHIFT INTO DANCE MUSIC FOUNDED?

TOP 20 SCOTTISH SINGLES OF THE 80s • THERE WAS PLENTY OF TALENT TO BE FOUND NORTH OF THE BORDER IN THE 80S, AS THIS RUNDOWN OF CLASSIC SCOTTISH SINGLES CONFIRMS

HI-NRG • THE TURBO-CHARGED DANCE MUSIC THAT TOUGHENED UP DISCO

HOT LIST • NEW RELEASES THAT NEED TO BE ON YOUR CULTURAL RADAR

DANSE MACABRE • RECORDING THEIR QUICKEST ALBUM SINCE THEIR DEBUT SEES DURAN DURAN TOO BUSY HAVING FUN TO CARE WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS THEY SHOULD BE DOING

MADNESS

VINCE CLARKE

OMD • OMD KEEP UP THEIR SUBLIME RUN OF REUNION STUDIO ALBUMS BY ALTERNATELY GETTING POLITICAL AND FEELING LOVED UP ON YET ANOTHER STELLAR LATTER-PERIOD GEM

THE ROLLING STONES

LOL TOLHURST X BUDGIE X JACKNIFE LEE

DOLLY PARTON

JOHNNY MARR

THE STREETS

DJ SHADOW

VV BROWN

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