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 SURPRISE NEW ALBUM AND WORLD TOUR

KYLIE • TENSION II

Supergrass reunion tour? I Should Coco

Pet Shop Boys get expansive on LP reissue

Q+A FAITHLESS • TWO YEARS AGO, FAITHLESS LOST THEIR CHARISMATIC FRONTMAN, MAXI JAZZ. AGAINST THE ODDS THEY’RE BACK, AND IN EBULLIENT FORM, TOO. SISTER BLISS TELLS CLASSIC POP HOW THE BAND CONTINUE TO FILL DANCEFLOORS WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS.

THE CURE UNVEIL NEW LP AFTER 16-YEAR WAIT

OBITUARY TITO JACKSON • 15 OCTOBER 1953 – 15 SEPTEMBER 2024

1 HIT WONDER

My POP life Muriel Gray • THE AUTHOR, BROADCASTER, JOURNALIST AND FORMER PRESENTER OF THE TUBE TALKS TO CLASSIC POP ABOUT MEETING DAVID BOWIE AND HER LOVE OF SIMPLE MINDS…

HAIRCUT ONE HUNDRED REVEAL FRUITS OF STUDIO LABOUR

THE ONE AND ONLY CHESNEY HAWKES RETURNS

LOST & FOUND

Q+A PHIL MANZANERA • THE LEGENDARY GUITARIST IS CELEBRATING HALF A CENTURY OF SOLO RECORDINGS WITH A LAVISH 11CD BOXSET, 50 YEARS OF MUSIC

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP • AS THE 80s REVIVAL ROLLS ON, LET’S NOT FORGET THAT THE DECADE ITSELF WAS FULL TO BURSTING WITH THROWBACKS AND REVIVALS OF ITS OWN: FROM DOO-WOP AND GLAM TO ROCKABILLY…

This month in POP NOVEMBER 1981 • NEW ORDER BEGIN AGAIN, QUEEN AND BOWIE’S COLLABORATION HITS NO.1 IN THE UK AND JAPAN RELEASE A CAREER-BEST EFFORT

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TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART • 1 NOVEMBER 1981

DARING TO BE DIFFERENT • IT’S THEIR FIRST PRINT INTERVIEW FOR EIGHT YEARS, SO THE HUMAN LEAGUE ARE GOING TO PUT ON A SHOW. AS THEY PREPARE FOR AN ARENA TOUR, THE TRIO OFFER CLASSIC POP A REMARKABLY CANDID INSIGHT INTO THEIR USUALLY PRIVATE WORLD. JUST DON’T CALL THEM ROCK‘N’ROLL…

HEART ON THEIR SLEEVE

ANY MORE SECRETS?

THE LOST ART OF HYSTERIA

PILLS ‘N’ THRILLS AND BELLYACHES HAPPY MONDAYS • CALL THE COPS! SHAUN RYDER AND CO LED THE MADCHESTER WAVE WITH THE MOVEMENT’S QUINTESSENTIAL RECORD. AND 34 YEARS LATER, IT’S STILL TWISTING OUR MELONS, MAN.

THE SONGS

THE PLAYERS

THE VIDEOS

MIND THE GAP • PIONEERS WHO WERE A RIOT OF COLOUR AND MISCHIEF, THOMPSON TWINS WERE ONLY EVER GOING TO BLAZE BRIGHTLY FOR A BRIEF TIME. TWO OF THEM HAVE LEFT MUSIC BEHIND FOR DECADES, WHILE TOM BAILEY ONLY RETURNED AFTER YEARS AWAY FROM POP. NOW FINALLY READY TO SHARE THEIR STORY TOGETHER AFTER NEARLY 40 YEARS, THE TRIO REVEAL HOW SQUATS, GRACE JONES AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS HELPED CREATE A TRANSATLANTIC PHENOMENON.

WE ARE DEFECTIVE

HERE'S THEIR FUTURE DAYS

MADNESS • CAMDEN TOWN’S FINEST HELPED DEFINE THE EARLY 80s WITH THEIR DISTINCTLY NUTTY TAKE ON THE 2-TONE SOUND BEFORE EXPANDING THEIR MUSICAL VISION WITH APLOMB FOR A TRIUMPHANT SECOND WIND

SOUNDTRACK SELECTION

SONGS FROM THE BIG STAGE • THEY ONCE HATED PLAYING GIGS, BUT TEARS FOR FEARS NOW LOVE PERFORMING SO MUCH THEY’RE SHARING THE JOY WITH A FIRST OFFICIAL LIVE ALBUM, WHICH ALSO FEATURES BRAND NEW SONGS. “WE’RE ON A CREATIVE ROLL,” THE DUO TELL US…

EVERYBODY WANTS TO GRU THE WORLD

NEW ADDITIONS

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

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