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Interviews
Interviews from Classic Pop Magazine with great artists from the late 70s, throughout the 80s and beyond.
Dapper, debonair and the son of a millionaire, Dieter Meier is the voice of Yello, the Swiss electronic-music pioneers who could be described as the missing link between Kraftwerk and…
Godmothers of Pop – Yoko Ono Interview
From her first career as a visual and performance artist to her years as John Lennon’s wife, muse and creative partner, and finally to her own lengthy career in music,…
Godfathers of Pop – Giorgio Moroder Interview
Legendary Italian producer Giorgio Moroder single- handedly invented disco when he drenched Donna Summer’s dulcet tones with a pulsating synthesiser on her Seventies hits Love To Love You Baby and…
Godfathers of Pop – Tom Bailey Interview
He may be best known as the founder and lead singer of Thompson Twins, but the infamous trio are just one chapter in the ever-unfolding story of Tom Bailey’s musical…
Godmothers of Pop – Annie Lennox Interview
From The Tourist to the Olympics, via nine albums with Eurythmics that define the shape of pop music for more than a decade, Annie Lennox is a true Godmother of…
Godfathers of Pop – Glenn Gregory Interview
Who could’ve guessed that when Heaven 17 sprung from the ashes of The Human League 1.0 in the early Eighties, they’d shape themselves into the archetypal electronic pop group and,…
Godfathers of Pop – Morten Harket Interview
Morten Harket, A-ha’s frontman has performed everywhere from Siberia to Santiago in support of his fifth solo album, Out Of My Hands, and in 2013, along with his former bandmates, he…
Godfathers of Pop – Howard Jones Interview
Earlier this year, Howard Jones remastered and reissued his late-Eighties/early-Nineties albums One To One, Cross That Line and In The Running as a box set on his own label, dtox,…
Godmothers of Pop – Kylie Minogue Interview
A quarter of a century since her first single, Locomotion, Kylie is a true Godmother of Pop, having scored 31 Top Ten hits in the UK. We caught up with…
Godfathers of Pop – Gary Kemp Interview
When Spandau Ballet guitarist and songwriter Gary Kemp received the Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Song Collection in 2012, it was overdue recognition for a stream of words and music that…