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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GEORGE MICHAEL’S TRIP INTO SPATIAL

POP UP

Robbie Williams classics hits to get orchestral makeover

SOUL GIANTS JOIN FORCES FOR UK JAUNT

Kerr’s tribute to father leads the way on upcoming Simple Minds LP

1-HIT WONDER

SUEDE BRING DIY PUNK ATTITUDE FOR AUTOFICTION

BLANCMANGE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM PRIVATE VIEW

Q+A THOMAS ROBSAHM • CLASSIC POP CHATS TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NEW LONGFORM DOCUMENTARY, A-HA: THE MOVIE

A-HA: THE MOVIE

LOST & FOUND

OBITUARY ANDY FLETCHER

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z of POP • A TRULY CLASSIC POP GROUP HAS TO HAVE A TRULY CLASSIC LOGO. BUT WHAT MAKES A GREAT LOGO, WHERE DO THEY COME FROM, AND WHICH HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME?

THIS MONTH IN POP • THIS MONTH, THE CD TRIUMPHS OVER VINYL, THE MONKEES REFORM AND THE BEASTIE BOYS RELEASE THEIR FOLLOW-UP TO LICENSED TO ILL…

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART

BEING HUMAN • CLASSICALLY TRAINED MUSICIAN KARL BARTOS WAS A MEMBER OF KRAFTWERK ON A STAGGERING RUN OF ALBUMS FROM RADIO-ACTIVITY TO ELECTRIC CAFÉ. HAVING PREVIOUSLY STAYED SILENT ABOUT HIS FORMER BAND, HIS POWERFUL NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY OFFERS A WHOLLY NEW PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE INSIDE THE MAN-MACHINE. HE GIVES HIS FIRST BRITISH INTERVIEW ABOUT KRAFTWERK AND BEYOND EXCLUSIVELY TO CLASSIC POP…

THE MJ MACHINE

NUMBERS GAME

A RESPECT FOR THE OLD WAYS

CLASSIC ALBUM • THIRTY YEARS ON, CLASSIC POP TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO ANNIE LENNOX’S MULTI-AWARD-WINNING SOLO DEBUT, THE 90S ALBUM THAT REAFFIRMED HER STATUS AS A SOUL-POP DIVA, PROVING SHE NEEDED NOBODY TO PROP HER UP

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

"THIS IS THE MUSIC WE LIKE. WE ARE WHO WE ARE." • BANANARAMA ARE BACK WITH AN ALBUM AS DEFIANTLY POP AS ANYTHING KEREN WOODWARD AND SARA DALLIN AND HAVE EVER MADE. AS THE PAIR CELEBRATE 40 YEARS TOGETHER, THEY TAKE US INSIDE THE ‘GOTHIC DISCO‘ OF MASQUERADE. ‘‘WE DON’T NEED TO PANDER TO WHATEVER IS TRENDING‘‘ THEY VOW...

MASTERSON SERVANT

LIVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE

WHITNEY HOUSTON • WHITNEY’S POWERFUL PIPES AND MODEL LOOKS SAW HER BECOME A TRUE MUSIC ICON

SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS

LIVE ALBUM

POP ART • FROM OBSCURE UNDERGROUND ARTISTS TO WORLDWIDE POP LEGENDS, DAVID STOREY IS THE MAN BEHIND MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF RECORD SLEEVE DESIGN. WE CAUGHT UP WITH HIM AT HIS STUDIO IN HOVE TO EXPLORE HIS PORTFOLIO.

TOP 10 • OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN TEAMS UP WITH ELO, DON MCCLEAN GETS WEEPY AND A HOST OF DOUBLE A-SIDES STORM THE CHART

The Revolution Will BeTelevised • PRINCE OWNED THE AIRWAVES WHEN HIS 1985 PURPLE RAIN TOUR WAS BEAMED OUT TO MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD AND ITS LEGENDARY SYRACUSE SHOW IS NOW BEING RELEASED ON BLU-RAY AND REMASTERED LIVE ALBUM. CLASSIC POP TALKS WITH WENDY MELVOIN AND LISA COLEMAN FROM HIS STELLAR BACKING BAND THE REVOLUTION TO FIND OUT MORE.

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

Love And Money - Strange Kind Of Love • THEY DIDN’T SCORE ANY MAJOR HITS BUT LOVE AND MONEY REMAIN ONE OF THE MOST FONDLY-REMEMBERED SCOTTISH BANDS OF THEIR ERA. THEIR SLEEPER CLASSIC FROM 1988, STRANGE KIND OF LOVE, IS EXHIBIT A.

Musical Youth • BACK WITH THEIR FIRST NEW STUDIO ALBUM IN ALMOST 40 YEARS – AND WITH THE ESTIMABLE BERNARD BUTLER ON BOARD, TOO – CLARE GROGAN TELLS US HOW ALTERED IMAGES’ MASCARA STREAKZ CAPTURES THE THRILLS OF HER TEENAGE BIG NIGHTS OUT

SOPHISTI-POP • THIS ISSUE, WE GRAB OUR FINEST THREADS...