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If you’re a mega-successful musician, being dead isn’t enough to stop you having hits… Death isn’t automatically a barrier to a musician’s career longevity. Tupac has famously released more albums…
Top Twenty Covers Of Classic 80s Songs
Classic Pop serves up a very personal choice of our favourite covers of 80s classics – some faithful, some radical reinventions… It’s a testament to the skyscraping songwriting achievements of the…
Bomb The Bass Interview: ‘All of a sudden I was in the job that I’d always dreamed about doing’
Tim Simenon, AKA Bomb The Bass, created one of the most important dance singles of the late 80s. Before he knew it, the young London DJ had become an accidental…
Ben Watt Interview: ‘I just went into a bad space for a while’
Grief and anger left Ben Watt stuck in a dark place – but now he’s emerged into the light with a reflective, deeply personal new album. Here, he talks life,…
Classic Album: Raising Hell – Run-DMC
Run-DMC’S Raising Hell was meant to take hip-hop “back to the streets”, yet became a massive crossover that united b-boys and rock and pop fans alike. It remains one of…
The Police Interview: ‘Being in The Police was like wearing a Prada suit made out of barbed wire’
Making Liam and Noel Gallagher look like The Chuckle Brothers, The Police were pop’s most famous brawlers, somehow making five iconic albums despite the hatred. They still loathed each other…
Q+A: Ian Broudie
Ian Broudie manned the mixing desk for classic records by Echo & The Bunnymen and The Fall before becoming a pop legend in his own right under the guise of…
Classic Album: Control – Janet Jackson
Emerging from the shadow of her big brothers, Janet’s third album saw her present a set of anthems on which she displayed independence, strength and self-worth. Boasting Jam and Lewis’…
Q+A: Daniele Davoli
As rave culture landed in 1989, this pivotal year in pop’s evolution was dominated by Italian house trio Black Box’s huge No.1 hit Ride On Time. However, alongside the success…
The Story Of Mute Records
In the dense jungles of electronic music, plenty of interesting labels have reigned over particular niches at various moments in time: Warp, DFA, Ninja Tune, !K7, Wall Of Sound, XL……