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Artist Features & Interviews
In June 2023, Pet Shop Boys released what’s possibly their ultimate statement – SMASH, a boxset of all their singles. But, in the 2020s, what is a single? What’s the…
Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz interview: “CBGBs was a wonderful incubator for baby bands”
One of the great love stories in music, as well as one of its finest rhythm sections, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz are preparing to share their memories of life…
Sam Brown interview: “I don’t want to criticise anyone who wants to look like a doll”
How Sam Brown came back from the silence (with a little help from ukuleles)… Back in 1989, Sam Brown whisked her way to the top with the anthemic single Stop!…
Tom Bailey interview: “It can be harder to write pop when you’re older”
Previously a cult proposition across the albums A Product Of… and Set, US hit In The Name Of Love inspired Tom Bailey to transform Thompson Twins from a seven-piece cult…
Cerrone interview: “I go clubbing in my own way”
In this exclusive interview, gallic disco legend Cerrone talks remixes, inspiring Daft Punk and how he never got a “good vibration” from French pop… By Will Simpson Marc Cerrone has…
Howard Jones talks Dialogue
The electro-pop pioneer is back on the road playing sold-out live shows and with a razor-sharp new studio album to boot – and his latest offering Dialogue says we need…
Vince Clarke’s VeryRecords – a very different sort of label
Vince Clarke’s VeryRecords is his bespoke label for releasing top-quality electronic music – but, as he reveals to Classic Pop, it’s also a great way for him to get out…
Nik Kershaw interview: “It’s still a buzz, walking out and hearing people sing those songs back to you”
In 2017, as he was about to embark on an Icons of the 8Os tour with Go West and Cutting Crew, Nik Kershaw met Classic Pop to talk stage fright,…
Simple Minds interview: “We were going to do, regardless of how hip or trendy it was”
In 2018 Simple Minds returned with their 18th studio album, Walk Between Worlds. That year, we talked to Jim Kerr about how the band had weathered the storm and emerged…
The Producers – Nicky Graham
From The Nolans to PJ & Duncan via the mega-successful Bros, producer and songwriter Nicky Graham certainly knows how to score a chart-topping earworm – Yet there’s much more to…