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POP-UP

A-HA ANNOUNCE ORCHESTRAL LIVE ALBUM AND FILM

EX-UB40 MEMBER ASTRO DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS

1-HIT WONDER

BOWIE DOCUMENTARY WILL BOAST UNSEEN FOOTAGE

HOWARD JONES PLOTS STRIPPED-BACK ACOUSTIC TRIO DATES FOR UK TOUR

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

DR ROBERT HAS THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION FOR CAPALDI

BIONIC MADONNA IS UNSTOPPABLE

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z of POP M IS FOR … MANAGER • THE MANAGER IS ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD AND, I WOULD SAY, ONE OF THE MOST UNDERVALUED AND OVERLOOKED ROLES IN THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE OF CLASSIC POP. WITHOUT THEM – AND I HAVE PROOF – THE WORLD WOULD NOT BE WHERE IT IS TODAY…

Q+A TREVOR HORN • AS A MEMBER OF DIRE STRAITS LEGACY, THE ICONIC PRODUCER IS KEEPING HIS BASS-PLAYING CHOPS IN SHAPE AS HE CELEBRATES THE BACK CATALOGUE OF MARK KNOPFLER’S GLOBE-CONQUERING BAND

LOST & FOUND

ORBIT REBOOTS HIS SOLO CAREER

STEVE NORMAN TO MARK SPANDAU’S GLORY DAYS

Tears For Fears head back on the road

A new era for Sister Sledge

BRIT AWARDS SHAKE-UP

KYLIE THRILLED WITH DISCO LEGEND COLLABORATION

THIS MONTH IN POP JANUARY 1980 • IN OUR ROUND-UP OF JANUARY 1980’S BIGGEST MOMENTS IN POP, CLIFF GET OBE’D AND A STRANGLER AND FORMER BEATLE GET BANGED UP…

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART • 6 JANUARY 1980

“YOU GET CARRIED ALONG WITH THE EUPHORIA OF HAVING HITS. THE POP THING WAS FUN.” • USUALLY A BAND AVERSE TO NOSTALGIA, THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT DEXYS ARE TOURING THEIR MOST SUCCESSFUL ALBUM TOO-RYE-AY FOR ITS 40 TH ANNIVERSARY WAS A SHOCK UNTIL IT BECAME OBVIOUS THERE’S A TYPICALLY MAVERICK KEVIN ROWLAND MOVE ACCOMPANYING IT. REMIXING THE ORIGINAL LP ALLOWS THE SINGER TO FINALLY BEAT PEACE WITH HIS POP YEARS. KEVIN AND ORIGINAL TOO-RYE-AY PLAYERS HELEN O’HARA AND BIG JIM PATERS ON RECALL THE CLASSIC THAT NEARLY BROKE THEM.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS SAID

TIM FOR A COMEBACK

SARTORIAL ELEGANCE

PRIVATE DANCER TINA TURNER • CLAWING HER WAY BACK FROM OBSCURITY, TINA TURNER’S 80S REBIRTH SAW THE ICONIC SINGER DEFY MUSIC INDUSTRY PREJUDICES BASED ON AGE, GENDER AND RACE TO PRODUCE A DECADE-DEFINING BLOCKBUSTER

KEY FIGURES

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

FOUR Little WORDS • “Destroy, disorder, disorientate!” As he prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of The Lexicon Of Love with a lavish new live tour, accompanied by Anne Dudley and the Southbank Sinfonia, Martin Fry tells Classic Pop how ABC set about creating a timeless pop masterpiece.

Entering the Lexicon

The art of Anne Dudley

ADAM ANT • LIFE THROUGH A LENS • PHOTOGRAPHER JUSTIN THOM AS WAS ON SET TO CAPTURE ALL OF THE ACTION AT ADAM ANT’S 1990 ROOM AT THE TOP VIDEO SHOOT

JAMIROQUAI • LED BY SUPERCAR-LOVING ECO WARRIOR JAY KAY, WE LOOK AT THE BAND WHO’VE MERGED 70S FUNKY SOUL WITH DISCO AND ELECTRO

LIVE DVD

COMPILATION

“DANCE MUSIC WASN’T JUST ENTERTAINMENT, IT WAS THE SOUND OF LIBERATION” • AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE AS TV’S GO-TO VICAR, IT’S EASY TO FORGET HOW INFLUENTIAL REV RICHARD COLES WAS ALONGSIDE JIMMY SOMERVILLE IN POLITICAL POP MAVERICKS COMMUNARDS. IT SEEMS A LONG WAY FROM DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY TO THE PULPIT, VIA HEDONISTIC ABANDON IN IBIZA, NOT LEAST FOR THE MAN WHO LIVED THROUGH IT ALL. AS COMMUNARDS’ MUSIC IS REISSUED, THE VICAR OF FINEDON TELLS US: “IT FEELS LIKE I WAS A DIFFERENT PERSON THEN.”

REVVING UP TO THE VICARAGE

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