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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...
15 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Enola Gay Not OMD’s biggest chart hit – even Locomotion got higher – but their most well-loved. Possibly because it summed up everything that…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 20-16
20 David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes We’ve come across several singles in the Top 100 that bridged the gap between Eighties pop and Nineties pop. And this was the one…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 25-21
25 Erasure: Sometimes The first of two high-scoring entries for Erasure, and proof that if any one musician dominates UK Eighties pop – and this Top 100 – it’s Vince…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 30-26
The Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 30 Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The Power of Love While Relax and Two Tribes, the first two Frankie singles, are remembered…
Classic Pop Issue 10 Out Now!
Issue 10 of Classic Pop is out now! For this very special issue 10 of Classic Pop we bring you our Synthpop Special where we have brought together four pioneers…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 40-31
Our Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 40 Electronic: Getting Away With It This may be Electronic’s only appearance in our chart, but all of the group’s members…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 50-41
Our Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 50 Soft Cell: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye By reaching number three in the UK charts in 1982, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 55-51
55 Heaven 17: Temptation Heaven 17’s finest moment, Temptation has a split personality: sometimes, it’s the 1983 UK number-two original with Glenn Gregory duelling with Carole Kenyon (as performed on…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 60-56
60 Tears for Fears: Mad World Curt Smith claims that when Tears For Fears wrote Mad World back in 1982, he and Roland Orzabal had absolutely no idea it would…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 65-61
65 Depeche Mode: Everything Counts We counted up the votes for Everything Counts but – oops – forgot to qualify which version people were voting for, as it’s been a…