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Interviews
Interviews from Classic Pop Magazine with great artists from the late 70s, throughout the 80s and beyond.
James return with uplifting new album Having celebrated their 40th anniversary last year, James are back with new album Yummy. The LP maintains a prolific output since the band reformed,…
Pete Wylie – Teach Yself Wah! Interview
Pete Wylie reflects on his career as a pop maverick One of the great mavericks of alternative pop, it’s taken 40 years for Pete Wylie to create a definitive guide…
Nik Kershaw interview – The Riddle
Nik Kershaw – The Riddle Nik Kershaw started 1984 with one album – Human Racing – and finished it with another – The Riddle. Here, he talks about the pressures…
Cerrone interview: “I go clubbing in my own way”
In this exclusive interview, gallic disco legend Cerrone talks remixes, inspiring Daft Punk and how he never got a “good vibration” from French pop… By Will Simpson Marc Cerrone has…
Vince Clarke’s VeryRecords – a very different sort of label
Vince Clarke’s VeryRecords is his bespoke label for releasing top-quality electronic music – but, as he reveals to Classic Pop, it’s also a great way for him to get out…
Nik Kershaw interview: “It’s still a buzz, walking out and hearing people sing those songs back to you”
In 2017, as he was about to embark on an Icons of the 8Os tour with Go West and Cutting Crew, Nik Kershaw met Classic Pop to talk stage fright,…
Simple Minds interview: “We were going to do, regardless of how hip or trendy it was”
In 2018 Simple Minds returned with their 18th studio album, Walk Between Worlds. That year, we talked to Jim Kerr about how the band had weathered the storm and emerged…
The Producers – Nicky Graham
From The Nolans to PJ & Duncan via the mega-successful Bros, producer and songwriter Nicky Graham certainly knows how to score a chart-topping earworm – Yet there’s much more to…
Run-DMC Interview – “The greatest period in hip-hop was the time before recorded rap”
Run-DMC took hip-hop to the mainstream VIA crossover classics Walk This Way and It’s Tricky, but split after the death of Jam Master Jay in 2002. In 2021, rapper DMC…
Bernard Sumner: “There’s only one place to go once you hit Everest, and that’s down”
Perhaps one of pop’s most reluctant stars, Bernard Sumner of New Order has been behind some of the finest songs of the past 40-plus years. A couple of years back,…