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Artist Features
To mark Alison Moyet’s 40th anniversary as a solo artist, she’s revisiting old songs for her new album, Key. The record is also an excuse to tour – and to…
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…
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…
Top 20 80s house hits
Our countdown of the best house hits of the 80s… House music may have been initially dismissed as a cult concern by the nation’s one-time ultimate tastemaker Radio 1, but…
Essential Prince In The 90s
Classic Pop presents its essential guide to Prince in the 90s… The dawn of the 90s found Prince in a state of uncertainty. Batman had been a big success, yet…
Top 40 Kylie Minogue songs
In this list of the best Kylie Minogue songs, we count down from 40 to No.1. What will our top track be…? Kylie’s transition from soap favourite to fully-anointed pop…
Top 40 Kate Bush Songs
For our Top 40 list of the best Kate Bush songs we looked back over the singer’s 40-plus-year career… 4o Ken, 1990 Few people would expect to find a Kate Bush deep…
Complete Guide – Pet Shop Boys albums
With Neil Tennant’s witty lyrics and Chris Lowe’s cultured synths and beats, the Pet Shop Boys’ albums helped to redefine the pop landscape… Please, 1986 Five years after first…
Kylie – her most pivotal songs
“I have so many characters lurking around my body – I’m possessed!” And with over five decades of hits, Kylie Minogue has explored many of them via some of the…