Pet Shop Boys live at London’s Royal Opera House 23 July 2024 Rating: 5/5 Since they became the first electronic artists to play London’s Royal Opera House in 2016, Pet…
Top 20 Comeback Singles
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Shaznay Lewis – Pages interview
Twenty years on from her solo debut, Shaznay Lewis is back with belated sophomore album Pages. We spoke to her about going it alone and whether All Saints really are…
Inside Blitz – the club that birthed an 80s revolution
Long seen as the club that invented Britain’s cultural life in the 80s, Blitz was the epicentre of both music and fashion. So why was it created at a dodgy…
Words & Pictures: Duran Duran dip into the archives
Words & Pictures: Duran Duran Duran Duran’s celebrated first five albums defined the sound and style of an era and continue to soundtrack the lives of millions of fans around…
Sananda Maitreya interview – The Pegasus Project
In this Classic Pop Sananda Maitreya interview, the singer discusses his 13th album The Pegasus Project: Pegasus & The Swan and reveals why Britain is an emotionally troubled place to…
The Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Imperial Phase’
From mixing Wham! fans in West End Girls through Neil realising he could sing to being terrified of Dusty, and recording three No.1s in a year, here’s the oft-untold studio…
Gabrielle – A Place In Your Heart interview
It’s been 31 years since the record-breaking Dreams hit big, now with her many-flavoured new album A Place In Your Heart, Gabrielle is back… If there’s any barometer of Gabrielle’s…
Popscene: New Jack Swing
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Popscene: Ambient Music
Classic Pop celebrates Ambient music: the mood-enhancing sounds that soothe our fevered brows… What is it? Some might say that ambient has little right being in a pop magazine. Pop,…