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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WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE WHAM! SONG?

Tears For Fears and Kylie top stellar Radio 2 festival bill

STARS PAY TRIBUTE TO “ICONIC TR AILBL AZER” TINA TURNER

Captain ready to sail again

LIVE LP DOCUMENTS LIAM’S KNEBWORTH SOLO TRIUMPH

SHAUN AND BEZ GO APE FOR NEW SUPERGROUP

PAUL HARDCASTLE • THE N-N-N-N-NINETEEN MAN ON THAT HIT AND HIS UNLIKELY TIME AS AN 80S POP STAR

I WANT TO BE YOUR PROPERTY

TIME TRAVELLING PRIMALS HAVE RAIDED THE ARCHIVE

TALK TALK ALUMNI ARE BACK FOR INSTRUMENTAL EPS

MY POP LIFE • THE COMIC BOOK WRITER – AND CREATOR OF KICK-ASS AND KINGSMAN – REFLECTS ON HIS MUSIC OBSESSIONS…

PEPSI & SHIRLIE SCR AP POP RETURN

DANCE FESTIVAL BRINGS THE BIG HITTERS TO ST HELENS

THE DRUM IS EVERYTHING

IAN PEEL‘S A TO Z of POP • FROM PSYCHEDELIA TO ACID HOUSE AND FROM PUNK TO “POP’S FINAL PARTY”, 1966, ‘77, ‘88 AND ‘99 PROVED THAT, WHEN WE HIT A DOUBLE DIGIT YEAR, THE RESULTS ARE OFTEN DYNAMITE

POP JULY 1988 • THIS MONTH, JACKO PLAYS TO A SELL-OUT WEMBLEY STADIUM, THE UK SAYS HELLO TO TRACY CHAPMAN AND FISH WAVES GOODBYE TO MARILLION

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART

“WHAM! WAS OUR FRIENDSHIP SET TO MUSIC” • FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE GEORGE MICHAEL AND ANDREW RIDGELEY PROFESSIONALLY PARTED COMPANY IN 1986, A MA JOR WHAM! REISSUE IS HAPPENING, WITH A SINGLES COMPILATION AND 7” BOXSET. IT COINCIDES WITH THE FIRST OFFICIAL WHAM! DOCUMENTARY, MADE BY NETFLIX. AS THEIR INCREDIBLE STORY IS FINALLY TOLD, ANDREW GIVES A VERY RARE INTERVIEW, WHILE PEPSI & SHIRLIE ALSO TELL THEIR PART IN WHAM!’S ALL TOO BRIEF HEYDAY.

THE SENSUAL WORLD • BUSH’S SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM IS A HEADY COMING OF AGE STATEMENT – A VIBRANT AND POWERFUL CELEBRATION OF WOMANHOOD, INTERWOVEN WITH RICH TEXTURES, FOLK INSTRUMENTATION AND SOARING VOCALS

“I’VE GOT MORE MUSIC TO MAKE – AND I’M GOING NOWHERE UNTIL I GET IT DONE” • REFUSING TO BE DRAGGED UNDER BY HIS TERMINAL CANCER DIAGNOSIS, ANDY TAYLOR HAS NOT ONLY BEEN PLAYING GUITAR ON A NEW DURAN DURAN ALBUM BUT ALSO MAKING HIS FIRST SOLO RECORD FOR 33 YEARS. EXPLAINING THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC IN STAYING STRONG DURING HIS ILLNESS, HE TELLS CLASSIC POP HOW EASY IT’S BEEN WITH HIS OLD BANDMATES, WHY HE LEFT TWICE OVER… AND HIS HOPES OF GETTING BACK ONSTAGE.

DURAN DURAN • QUICKLY TRANSCENDING THEIR NEW ROMANTIC ROOTS, DURAN DURAN HELPED DEFINE THE 80S SOUND AND ACROSS 40 YEARS HAVE EVOLVED INTO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POP BANDS OF ALL TIME

PURPLE REIGN • FROM CO-FOUNDING DURAN DURAN TO SOLO SUCCESS AND A SURPRISE REINVENTION AS A FOLK TROUBADOUR, IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT IT’S BEEN QUITE A RIDE FOR THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS STEPHEN ‘TIN TIN’ DUFFY. CLASSIC POP MEETS THE MUSICAL CHAMELEON AS HE UNVEILS HIS BAND THE LILAC TIME’S LATEST ALBUM…

REUNION OF THE SNAKE?

TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 7 JULY 1990 • A WEEK CHOCK FULL OF DIVERSE CLASSICS FROM ELTON AND OPERA THROUGH TO MOTIVATIONAL POWER BALLADRY, EURODANCE – AND HAMMER TIME!

THIS CHARMING MAN • SINGER, SONGWRITER, MEME, ICON… RICK ASTLEY SITS DOWN WITH CLASSIC POP TO GIVE US AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW OF HIS FIRST NEW ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS, PLUS WE TALK ROAD TRIPS, GLASTONBURY, THE SMITHS AND THE REMARKABLE AFTERLIFE OF THAT SONG

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS -THE DELIVERY MAN • JUST TURNED 50 AND 27 YEARS INTO HIS CAREER, A CREATIVELY RESTLESS ELVIS COSTELLO FOUND HIMSELF DABBLING IN MULTIPLE MUSICAL GENRES TO GENERALLY DIMINISHING RETURNS. THOUGH IT WAS LARGELY NEGLECTED UPON ITS RELEASE IN 2004, HIS 21ST STUDIO ALBUM THE DELIVERY MAN STANDS THE TEST OF...