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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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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…
My Pop Life – Sanjeev Bhaskar
The Unforgotten and Goodness Gracious Me star Sanjeev Bhaskar reveals his music obsessions… Tell us how you first got into music… I was steeped in Elvis and The Beatles from…
Popscene – Yacht Rock
What is it? Unusually, the term ‘yacht rock’ was only coined well after the genre’s 70s and early-80s heyday. At the time when this FM-friendly stew of super-varnished production, breezy…
Paul Heaton interview: Our friend in the north
In 2022, Paul Heaton celebrated his 60th birthday in unique fashion by putting £60,000 behind the bar in pubs across the country. Now back with his latest album alongside Jacqui…
Gareth Jones interview: Electric Dreams
Music producer Gareth Jones has worked with some of the biggest names in synth-pop, including Erasure, Depeche Mode, Wire and John Foxx. In 2020, he talked us through his stellar…
Popscene – Sophisti-pop
We grab our finest threads for the slickest of musical flavours… What is it? Like glam before it, it’s difficult to separate sophisti-pop from the clothes it’s sung in.…
My Pop Life – Robin Askwith
The Confessions… and Carry On… actor talks us through his music obsessions What’s your all-time favourite album? My absolute favourite, for personal reasons, is Wish You Were Here by Pink…