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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...
Multidisciplinary Breton artist Émilie Tiersen – aka QUINQUIS – has shared her cover of Berlin’s classic Take My Breath Away. The track comes from her new six-track EP, AER, out…
Rusty Egan unveils new Boy George collaboration
New Romantic legend Rusty Egan has shared a new song, Sister (featuring Boy George and Mary Pearce), from his forthcoming (and as-yet-untitled) new studio album. The LP promises collaborations with a…
ABBA in the studio
In 2018, ABBA announced they had finished two new songs, their first in over three decades. In issue 43 of Classic Pop, released in the August of that year, we…
Pop Art – Greg Jakobek
Greg Jakobek’s name may not be familiar, but his design work certainly will be. His graphics graced the record sleeves of some of some of the 80s biggest names, and…
Top 20 compilation albums
In this veritable best of the best Best Ofs, we select 20 of the finest pop artist compilation albums… By Barry Page As the high sales of compilation albums would…
Coming Round Again – when the 60s met the 80s
Proving that form is temporary yet class is permanent, a whole host of major 60s acts had an unexpected career resurgence as bona fide chart stars in the 80s… By…
Clare Grogan interview: ‟I didn’t want people to think that this was a nostalgia trip”
Back with their first new studio album in almost 40 years – and with the estimable Bernard Butler on board, too – Clare Grogan tells us how Altered Images’ Mascara…
Q+A: a-ha: The Movie director Thomas Robsahm
Classic Pop chats to the director of the critically-acclaimed new longform documentary, a-ha: The Movie… By Barry Page The son of actors Ugo Tognazzi and Margarete Robsahm, Thomas Robsahm, has…
Inside Love And Money’s Strange Kind Of Love
They didn’t score any major hits, but Love And Money remain one of the most fondly-remembered Scottish bands of their era. Their sleeper classic from 1988, Strange Kind Of Love,…
Betty Boo announces October live show
Betty Boo has announced a headline show at London’s Lafayette in King’s Cross. The gig is in support of her brand new album, Boomerang, which arrives on 14 October. Tickets…