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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FREE BUNDLE OF NOW YEARBOOKS • NOW YEARBOOKS 1980 -1984 – FIVE YEARS OF MASSIVE HITS, CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY, CREATIVE BRILLIANCE AND POP MAGIC OF EACH YEAR!

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DEPECHE MODE REVEAL BRAND NEW ALBUM AND TOUR

OMD AND SOFT CELL ARE AMONG LET’S ROCK HEADLINERS FOR 2023

SAM BROWN • STOP!, STOPPING AND STARTING AGAIN: HOW SAM BROWN CAME BACK FROM THE SILENCE (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM UKULELES)

DROWNING IN BERLIN

GARBAGE DIG OUT HITS AND DEEP CUTS FOR DOUBLE ALBUM RETROSPECTIVE

PEOPLE POWER PROMPTS WELLER RARITIES COMP

MY POP LIFE • THE UNFORGOTTEN AND GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME STAR REVEALS HIS MUSIC OBSESSIONS

CERRONE • THE GALLIC DISCO LEGEND ON REMIXES, INSPIRING DAFT PUNK AND HOW HE NEVER GOT A “GOOD VIBRATION” FROM FRENCH POP

ACCESS ALL AREAS FOR NEW DURAN BOOK

LOST & FOUND

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z of POP • FROM TALK TALK BY TALK TALK TO MADNESS’ COVER OF MADNESS VIA VISAGE’S VISAGE. DO THE ULTIMATE ANTHEMS COME WHEN BANDS LOOK TO THEMSELVES FOR INSPIRATION?

THIS MONTHIN POP NOVEMBER 1982 • TV GOLD ON BONFIRE NIGHT, PRINCE HITS THE ROAD, DURANMANIA IN ACTION AND THE BEST-SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME IS RELEASED…

Northern Exposure • SEEMINGLY ON THE VERGE OF SPLITTING FOR THE THIRD TIME WHEN LAST YEAR’S DOCUMENTARY A-HA: THE MOVIE BROUGHT THEIR SIMMERING TENSIONS TO THE BOIL, WITH TYPICAL CONTRARINESS THE BAND ARE INSTEAD RELEASING THEIR FIRST ALBUM FOR SEVEN YEARS. TRUE NORTH IS TRULY BEAUTIFUL – BUT, AS THE TRIO TELL CLASSIC POP, THIS TIME IT REALLY COULD BE A-HA’S FINAL STATEMENT.

CLASSIC ALBUM KICK INXS • ON THEIR SIXTH ALBUM, THE AUSSIES LAID THEIR AMBITIONS BARE, TAPPING INTO THE ZEITGEIST AND TRANSFORMING INTO GLOBAL MEGASTARS – THOUGH THE ICONIC FUNK-ROCK HYBRID WAS ALMOST SCRAPPED BY THEIR BEMUSED LABEL BOSSES

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THE SONGS

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HEARTS AND MINDS • DESPITE BEING FORGED FROM PERSONAL LOSS AMIDST A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, SIMPLE MINDS’ LATEST ALBUM, DIRECTION OF THE HEART, AIMS TO SHINE A POSITIVE LIGHT IN DARK TIMES – AND IT MIGHT EVEN BE THEIR NEW NEW GOLD DREAM EXPLAINS JIM KERR AND CHARLIE BURCHILL…

THOMPSON TWINS & TOM BAILEY • REASSESSING ONE OF THE 80S’ MORE NEGLECTED HITMAKERS

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

ECLECTIC WARRIORS • MEDAZZALAND IS DURAN DURAN’S GREAT LOST ALBUM – UNTIL NOW. FINALLY GETTING A PHYSICAL RELEASE 25 YEARS AFTER IT WAS DUE OUT, IT’S THE RECORD THAT COULD HAVE EASILY SUNK THE BAND – ESPECIALLY WHEN JOHN TAYLOR LEFT. BUT, AS NICK RHODES TELLS CLASSIC POP, THEY CONTINUED WITH A BOLD AND BRILLIANT EXPERIMENT, DESPITE WRITER’S BLOCK AND PERSONAL HEARTBREAK AT THE LOSS OF FRIEND AND INSPIRATION, MICHAEL HUTCHENCE.

BOO TWO • 30 YEARS AFTER HER LAST LP, IT’S THE SECOND COMING OF BETTY BOO. BACK WITH AN ALBUM OF BANGERS AS GLORIOUSLY FLOOR-FILLING AS ANYTHING IN HER HIP-HOP HEYDAY, SHE TELLS CLASSIC POP ABOUT WHY NOW WAS THE RIGHT TIME TO RETURN AND TAKES US INSIDE HER STAR-LADEN NEW RECORD, BOOMERANG.

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

TOP TEN • BABS AND THE BEE GEES, BLONDIE GO ROCKSTEADY, BOWIE’S IN FASHION, AN OMD CLASSIC… PLUS A LOVE METAPHOR BUILT ON FULL-BODIED LAGER

Nik Kershaw -The Works • HE WAS THE UK’S MOST SUCCESSFUL SOLO ARTIST DURING 1984 AND 1985, BUT BY 1989 NIK KERSHAW’S STAR WAS ON THE...