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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...
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…
Godfathers of Pop – Wally Badarou Interview
Synonymous with just about every key album at the funk end of the Eighties pop spectrum from Level 42 to Grace Jones to Talking Heads, Wally Badarou has since diversifi…
Madness drummer Woody Woodgate goes solo
Madness drummer Woody Woodgate is the latest member of the band to announce a solo album, following the recent announcement that guitarist Cathal Smyth is releasing his debut solo album…
Lisa Stansfield – The Classic Pop Interview
Lancashire soul diva Lisa Stansfield began her career by winning Search For A Star in 1980, but had to wait another nine years before she topped charts around the globe…
Godfathers of Pop – Dieter Meier Interview
Dapper, debonair and the son of a millionaire, Dieter Meier is the voice of Yello, the Swiss electronic-music pioneers who could be described as the missing link between Kraftwerk and…
Godmothers of Pop – Yoko Ono Interview
From her first career as a visual and performance artist to her years as John Lennon’s wife, muse and creative partner, and finally to her own lengthy career in music,…
Godfathers of Pop – Giorgio Moroder Interview
Legendary Italian producer Giorgio Moroder single- handedly invented disco when he drenched Donna Summer’s dulcet tones with a pulsating synthesiser on her Seventies hits Love To Love You Baby and…
A-ha reunite for album and world tour
(photos by Gerrit Sievert) At a press conference at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin this lunchtime, A-ha reunite and confirmed that their forthcoming reunion show at the Rock In Rio…
The Lowdown – The Police
Given the anti-establishment ethos that fuelled the punk movement in the late Seventies, it’s remarkable that the big breakout act from that scene was a new-wave trio fronted by…
Classic Album: Wham! – Fantastic
Speedos, shuttlecocks and exuberant, life-affirming tunes – when George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley exploded onto the scene with their debut album, Fantastic, the pop world didn’t quite know what had…