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Steve Harnell
Steve Harnell is the Editor of Classic Pop and Vintage Rock magazines. Over the past 25 years he’s written about music for magazines and newspapers such as Long Live Vinyl, Record Collector, Total Guitar, Country, Guitar, the Bristol Post and Western Daily Press. During that time, he’s interviewed an array of major names including Al Green, John Lydon, Massive Attack and Ian Brown. Apart from his regular work at the helm of Classic Pop and Vintage Rock, he's also edited various special editions of their sister titles, Classic Pop Presents and Vintage Rock Presents.
In this Happy Mondays interview from 2017, we speak to charismatic frontman Shaun Ryder, plus fellow survivors Mark Day and Rowetta… Every decade gets the double bill of bands it……
The Bristol Sound – How The West Was Won
The Bristol Sound is a melting pot of genres that reflects the city’s varied cultural cornerstones – and in the 90s, it became a world-beating brand… Music journalists and cultural……
Remembering George Michael’s Older
George Michael: Older was the former Wham! frontman’s third studio album and his first in over five years… It took George Michael more than half a decade to release the……
Making George Michael: Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1
George Michael: Listen Without Prejudice would prove a worthy follow-up to the singer’s debut album, giving him another No.1 LP in the process… The signs were there, of course, right……
Making Duran Duran: Duran Duran
Before the silk suits, yachts and blockbuster videos sailed into view, Duran Duran’s debut album saw them at their most experimental – an innate pop sensibility melded with art-school synths,……
Duran Duran: The Side Projects
If there’s a schism that exists within the ranks of Duran Duran, it was most obviously visible in their wildly differing splinter groups, The Power Station and Arcadia. Classic Pop……
Album By Album – New Order
New Order albums – From 1981’s Movement to 2015’s Music Complete, this is your definitive guide… New Order Albums: Movement Released 1981 Label Factory Chart Position UK No.30 US –……
ABBA Albums: The complete guide
All of the ABBA albums are worth a place in every pop fan’s record collection. Here we take a trip through every record the quartet ever made… ABBA Albums: Ring……
Nick Heyward Albums: The Complete Guide
Nick Heyward albums have, over the decades, embraced pop, soul, funk and folk… By Steve Harnell Nick Heyward Albums: Pelican West Released 1982 Label Arista Records Producer Bob Sargeant Just……
Album By Album: Sade
Shifting an astonishing 75 million albums worldwide, over the past four decades Sade have finessed their ‘quiet storm’ sound for the masses. By Steve Harnell Diamond Life Released 1984 Label……