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Jon O'Brien
Jon O'Brien is a freelance entertainment writer from Wigan who has written the Forget Me Not and Top 20 features for Classic Pop since 2019 and had bylines in the likes of Esquire, Billboard, Vulture, New Scientist, i-D, The Guardian, GRAMMY.com and Paste. He's also a soccer enthusiast, reluctant runner, King Charles Spaniel owner, garage drummer, Icelandophile and carrot cake connoisseur. The first single he ever bought was Starship's We Built This City, the first album Now That's What I Call Music 6 and his favourite Classic Pop-friendly acts are Scritti Politti, The Sundays and The Bangles.
Breathing fresh life into old classics or radically reinventing them, we celebrate 20 of the finest 80s cover versions The hit cover version is something of a rarity in today’s…
Top 20 girlband singles of the 80s
Pinballing between spiky new wave, pure pop, R&B, hip-hop and indie, these are the best girlband singles of the 80s The sheer volume of all-singing, all-dancing, all-female acts that emerged…
Top 20 Greatest Singles by 80s Actors
Not content with fame in movies and TV, many 80s actors tried their hand at making pop songs… Actors moonlighting as pop stars wasn’t strictly an 80s development. Who can…