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Classic Pop
Classic Pop magazine is the ultimate celebration of great pop and chart music across the decades with in-depth interviews with top artists, features, news and reviews. From pop to indie and new wave to electronic music – it's all here...
Issue 17 – our June/July issue – is out today, with A-ha as our cover stars. We chart their highs, their lows, their farewell… and now their quite unexpected reunion…
Godfathers of Pop – Daryl Hall Interview
Last year’s tour by Daryl Hall And John Oates – captured by the cameras at the Olympia Theatre in July, a performance just released on a new DVD, Live In…
Paying Tribute to Errol Brown
The death from liver cancer of former Hot Chocolate singer Errol Brown has seen the pop world pay tribute, with Nile Rodgers, Boy George and Kim Wilde among those paying…
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions Releasing Six-disc Box-set
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions are releasing a six-disc box-set of Collected Recordings from 1983 to 1989 on June the 29th. The set includes the band’s three albums Rattlesnakes, Easy…
Godfathers of Pop – Mark King Interview
Founding member of Level 42 Mark King started out as a drummer until he convinced a music shop to hire him as a bass expert. His band evolved from jazz…
Godfathers of Pop – Andy Bell Interview
The Erasure frontman has been busy of late, releasing a solo album, Torsten The Bareback Saint – which he performed at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2014 – and a…
B52s singer Kate Pierson enlists Sia for debut solo album
The B52s singer Kate Pierson releases her debut solo album Guitars And Microphones on June 1. The album is co-written with Sia, who is also the record’s executive producer. Other…
Godfathers of Pop: Peter Hook Interview
It seems inconceivable that Peter Hook is edging towards 37 years in the music business. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that he’s well into the third full phase…
Godfathers of Pop – Nile Rodgers Interview
Nile Rodgers ruled the dancefloor in the late Seventies with Chic, before going on to produce even bigger hits for Sister Sledge, Madonna, David Bowie, Duran Duran…the list goes on.…
Godfathers of Pop – Ron Mael Interview
Pioneers ever since Sparks began in the late 1960s, Russell and Ron Mael were among the first duos to make synthpop after teaming up with producer Giorgio Moroder on 1979’s…