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Steve O'Brien
Steve O’Brien is a writer who specialises in music, film and TV. He has written for magazines and websites such as SFX, The Guardian, Radio Times, Esquire, The New Statesman, Digital Spy, Empire, Yours Retro, The New Statesman and MusicRadar. He’s written books about Doctor Who and Buffy The Vampire Slayer and has even featured on a BBC4 documentary about Bergerac. Apart from his work on Classic Pop, he also edits CP’s sister magazine, Vintage Rock Presents.
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July 3, 1973 – David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust, his most celebrated alter-ego, in front of 5000 disbelieving fans onstage at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Fifty years later, Ziggy will finally…
My Pop Life – Matt Everitt
The BBC Radio 6 Music DJ – and former Menswe@r drummer – Matt Everitt talks us through his music obsessions What’s the first song you remember loving? I loved The…
Robert Palmer – Simple Irrefutable
Far from the dilettante playboy his image suggested, could the shapeshifting Robert Palmer be one of the most underrated singer-songwriters of his era? We reassess his chameleon-like solo career and…
Popscene – acid house
The tabloids are in a lather about acid house, but it’s just great dance music at the end of the day… What is it? Though it was a movement that…
My Pop Life – John Thomson
The Fast Show and Cold Feet star shares his lifelong musical obsessions… Who were your musical heroes growing up? I loved John Barry as I’m a big Bond fan. There…
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes boxset review
John Hughes’ legendary 80s films soundtracked a generation, his new boxset Life Moves Pretty Fast combines the hit tracks all in one place. But does it still have the same…
The rise of Madonna
Before 1983 few people in America – let alone the world – had heard of Madonna Ciccone. but that was soon to change… On 9 January 1983 Madonna Louise Ciccone…
Popscene – baggy
We travel back to 1990 and the moment when dance met indie… What is it? Before baggy, indie and dance were mutually exclusive genres. In the late 80s, few that…
The second coming of Betty Boo
In late 2022, 30 years after her last LP, Betty Boo returned with an album of bangers as gloriously floor-filling as anything in her hip-hop heyday, She talked to Classic Pop…
Some kind of wonderful – the music of John Hughes
The movies of John Hughes featured some of the hippest artists of the 80s. As a boxset is released featuring tracks from many of his big screen classics, we meet…