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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CLASSIC WHO’S WHO 81

POP UP

DEXYS SET FOR NEW ALBUM AND UK TOUR

THOMAS BANGALTER FINALLY REVEALS REASONS BEHIND DAFT PUNK’S UNEXPECTED SPLIT

OBITUARY PAUL CATTERMOLE

MY POP LIFE • THE FORMER LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER AND CURRENT MP FOR WESTMORLAND AND LONSDALE ON HIS MUSIC OBSESSIONS…

Q+A BELINDA CARLISLE • THE 80S ICON ON HER LONG-OVERDUE RETURN TO POP AND WHY SHE’S NOT READY TO RETIRE JUST YET…

YELLO DOCUMENTARY NEEDS GREEN LIGHT

OBITUARY

1 HIT WONDER

DANNII MINOGUE’S NEON NIGHTS SET FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE

CHRISTINE MCVIE’S CAUSE OF DEATH IS REVEALED

LOST & FOUND

THIS MONTH IN POP MAY 1988 • JAMES BROWN FINDS HIMSELF UP IN FRONT OF THE BEAK WHILE TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY BREAKS THE STATES

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART

SMASH THE SYSTEM • PET SHOP BOYS ARE ABOUT TO RELEASE WHAT COULD BE THEIR ULTIMATE STATEMENT: SMASH, A BOXSET OF ALL THEIR SINGLES. BUT, IN 2023, WHAT IS A SINGLE? WHAT’S THE BEST PET SHOP BOYS SEVEN-INCH? CAN PSB REALLY BE SUMMED UP BY A PAIR OF DOLLS? JOIN NEIL TENNANT AND CHRIS LOWE FOR AN EPIC CAREER-SPANNING EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.

ORDER AND UNITY

CHART ATTACK

DOWN THE DISCO

HIGH FLYING PETS

PETER GABRIEL III (AKA MELT) • THE FORMER GENESIS FRONTMAN RETAINS HIS ECCENTRICITY, YET CHANNELS IT INTO AN ALBUM FULL OF FACE-MELTING ANTHEMS – HIS THIRD LP WAS AN ARTISTIC AND COMMERCIAL HIGH POINT THAT REPOSITIONED THE PROGGY EXPERIMENTALISM INTO A POST-PUNK FRAMEWORK, EXPLORING POLITICS, MINIMALISM AND THE FRAGILE STATE OF THE MIND

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

THE OTHER FAB FOUR • AS ULTRAVOX’S QUARTET ALBUM GETS THE DELUXE REISSUE TREATMENT, MIDGE URE AND BILLY CURRIE RECALL THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF ITS CREATION WITH LEGENDARY PRODUCER GEORGE MARTIN

“GLASSY, METAL, SHINY”

A DIFFERENT HEADSPACE

MADONNA • WE PUT THE IMMACULATE CAREER OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FEMALE POP ARTIST OF ALL TIME UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

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

too latte for good byes • IT’S BEEN A HELLUVA THREE YEARS FOR RON AND RUSSELL MAEL. FIRST THERE WAS THE SPARKS BROTHERS DOCUMENTARY. THEN CAME THEIR DEBUT FILM AS SCREENWRITERS, THE BIG-SCREEN MUSICAL ANNETTE. NOW THE DUO ARE BACK WITH THEIR 26TH STUDIO ALBUM, THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE...

TOP TEN • SYNTH-POP GOLD, A CHARITY ANTHEM, CULT MOVIE CLASSIC, DANCING UP CLOSE – AND THE HORRORS OF VIETNAM

IN THE HEART OF THE ACTION • OUR PICK OF THE BEST CLASSIC POP- FRIENDLY FESTIVALS AND LIVE EVENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS YEAR

Britpop • WHEN THE ERA OF NEW LADDISM MIXED WITH A CELEBRATION OF ANGLOCENTRIC POP CULTURE

KING OF PAIN • MORE CLOSELY INVOLVED WITH HIS FANS THAN EVER BEFORE AFTER NEARLY LOSING HIS HOUSE IN LOCKDOWN, LLOYD COLE HAS EMERGED WITH ON PAIN– A STUNNING ALBUM NEARER TO TALK TALK THAN THE COMMOTIONS, DESPITE HIS OLD BANDMATES’ INPUT. LLOYD TELLS CLASSIC POP HOW HE’S MORE COMPOSER THAN SONGWRITER NOW – AND HOW HIS SON’S SAVAGERY SAVED THE ALBUM FROM ENDING UP LIKE BAD MACCA...

Aztec Camera - Love • DEVOTED TO THAT CRAZY LITTLE THING WHICH MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND, AZTEC CAMERA’S THIRD STUDIO ALBUM FOUND RODDY FRAME GOING IT ALONE AND AIMING FOR THE VERY TOP WITH A BLUE-EYED SOUL STYLE THAT OWED MORE TO AMERICA THAN SCOTLAND’S EAST KILBRIDE

TOP 2O ANTIPODEAN SINGLES • FROM POST-PUNK CLASSICS THROUGH TO THOSE EARWORMS THAT YOU JUST CAN’T GET...