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…

WELCOME

OBITUARY CHRISTINE McVIE

POP UP

DURAN DURAN AND EURYTHMICS INDUCTED INTO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

SOUL GREATS WILL ROLL BACK THE YEARS

TIFFANY • THE EX-TEEN ICON TELLS ALL ABOUT HER DIVORCE-INSPIRED NEW STUDIO ALBUM AND LOVE OF TRASHY SCI-FI FLICKS 

MY POP LIFE

DEBBIE GIBSON • SINCE WE LAST CAUGHT UP WITH THE SINGER, SHE’S BEEN JUGGLING MAKING NEW MUSIC, TV, ACTING AND REFLECTING ON HER CAREER IN GENERAL

1 HIT WONDER

SUNROOF ON A ROLL WITH QUICKFIRE ELECTRONICA ALBUM

HAIRCUT ONE HUNDRED TO REFORM – SHOW AND REISSUE ANNOUNCED

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z • THE LIST SONG – LYRIC-BASED LISTS OF PEOPLE, PLACES OR EVENTS – GOES BACK MORE THAN 100 YEARS. SO WHY IS IT ALL THE BEST EXAMPLES COME FROM ONE YEAR AT THE END OF THE 80S?

MATT GOSS GOES ORCHESTRAL FOR COLE PORTER CLASSICS

LOST & FOUND

NATALIE MERCHANT RETURNS WITH EMOTIVE SOLO LP

THIS MONTH IN POP JANUARY 1984 • MADONNA AIRS HER WORLD TAKEOVER PLAN ON US TV, DEF JAM RECORDS COME TO LIFE, AN EMERGENCY FOR MJ, FRANKIE SAYS RELAX AND PAUL YOUNG TOPS THE UK ALBUMS CHART...

" WHEREVER IT IS WE GO TO IN THE ETHER, I’LL LOOK BACK WITH ZERO REGRETS • A BEAUTIFUL SINGER WITH THE LOOKS TO MATCH, SEAL ALWAYS SEEMED DESTINED FOR STARDOM. BUT A NEW REISSUE OF HIS SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM IS TIME TO REMEMBER THAT STARDOM ONCE SEEMED LIGHT YEARS AWAY FOR ONE OF THE FINEST VOCALISTS BRITAIN HAS PRODUCED. IN A RARE INTERVIEW, SEAL RECALLS HOW THE STAGE USED TO TERRIFY HIM, WHILE TREVOR HORN REVEALS THEIR UNLIKELY BONDING INFLUENCES. “IT’S BEEN A HELL OF A RUN,” AS SEAL TELLS CLASSIC POP.

THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE • THE TUBEWAY ARMY FRONTMAN GOES SOLO AND PRE-EMPTS THE SOUND OF THE NEXT DECADE WITH A NO.1 RECORD THAT REMAINS A COMPELLING DOCUMENT OF ITS TIME AND CONTINUES TO INSPIRE GREAT POP MUSIC TODAY

STEERING A NEW COURSE • GAZ COOMBES HAS MATURED FROM THE SCAMP WITH THE SIDEBURNS IN SUPERGRASS TO THOUGHTFUL SOLO ARTIST. FOR HIS NEW SOLO ALBUM, HE TELLS US WHY HE’S LOOKING FORWARDS, NOT BACKWARDS.

ALBUM BY ALBUM ULTRAVOX • ORIGINALLY FRONTED BY JOHN FOXX, ULTRAVOX WERE THE PURE DEFINITION OF A CULT CONCERN BEFORE A CHANGE IN PERSONNEL SPARKED BOTH A MAINSTREAM BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE BAND AND A WHOLE NEW MUSICAL MOVEMENT

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

2O23 THE YEAR AHEAD • POP’S BIGGEST NAMES ARE GEARING UP FOR A THRILLING YEAR OF COMEBACKS, REUNIONS AND ANNIVERSARIES

SOULTIME

TOP TEN • STARRY-EYED SOAP STARS, POWER POP EUPHORIA, DANCEFLOOR GOLD, A BRIT-HOP ANTHEM, AN ODD COUPLE, AND THE BIG O’S MIGHTY SWANSONG

MOO-VING ON UP • AS THE INSPIRAL CARPETS PREPARE FOR AN EMOTIONAL FIRST TOUR SINCE THE TRAGIC DEATH OF DRUMMER CRAIG GILL IN 2016, THE BAND REVEAL ALL ABOUT THEIR DAYS AS OUTSIDERS IN THE HEDONISTIC MADCHESTER SCENE AND HOW THEY WERE ONCE HELD OFF THE NO.1 SPOT IN THE UK ALBUMS CHART BY THE CARPENTERS

Prince - Batman • A CONCILIATORY GESTURE TO TO HIS LABEL WARNER BROS? SELL-OUT OR HEARTFELT? A SPIRITUALLY-MOTIVATED ARTISTIC STATEMENT? EITHER WAY, PRINCE ROUNDED OFF AN EXTRAORDINARY 1980s WITH ARGUABLY HIS FINAL MASTERPIECE, 1989’S BATMAN.

TOP 2O EXTENDED PLAY • WHETHER IT WAS AS A STOPGAP RELEASE OR A SPRINGBOARD FOR AN ENTIRE CAREER, THE EP INVARIABLY OFFERED FANTASTIC VALUE FOR MONEY, AS WELL AS UNLEASHING A PLETHORA OF BRILLIANT SONGS TO BOOT

Acid House • THE TABLOIDS ARE IN A LATHER, BUT IT’S JUST GREAT DANCE MUSIC AT THE END OF THE DAY…

DEVOTED FANS...