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Pete Wylie reflects on his career as a pop maverick One of the great mavericks of alternative pop, it’s taken 40 years for Pete Wylie to create a definitive guide…
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…
Black Grape – Orange Head interview
Black Grape’s Shaun Ryder and Kermit return with new album Shaun Ryder made the ultimate comeback in the mid-90s with Black Grape. Now 30 years on from their formation, Shaun…
Bananarama Glorious Interview
As Bananarama prepare for the release of Glorious – The Ultimate Collection, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin reflects with Classic Pop on how they have overcome everything the industry could…
Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise? Interview
J. J. Jeczalik and Gary Langan reflect on the formation of Art Of Noise In 1984, Art Of Noise unwittingly created some of the most memorable tunes by maxing out…
Tom Bailey reflects on the Thompson Twins’ Into The Gap
The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey looks back at the band’s fourth studio album Into The Gap The Thompson Twins released their fourth long-player, Into The Gap, in February 1984. Here,…
Jim Kerr interview: 40 years of Simple Minds’ Sparkle In The Rain
Simple Minds’ frontman Jim Kerr looks back on their bombastic Sparkle In The Rain album To many Simple Minds fans, 1984’s Sparkle In The Rain album was a marker in the…
Nik Kershaw interview – The Riddle
Nik Kershaw – The Riddle Nik Kershaw started 1984 with one album – Human Racing – and finished it with another – The Riddle. Here, he talks about the pressures…
Q&A: Kylie producer Lostboy talks Padam Padam and more
In an exclusive Classic Pop interview, producer Lostboy reveals the story behind tiktok sensation Padam Padam, Kylie’s unstoppable lead single from her new album Tension… Lostboy, aka Peter Rycroft, can…
OMD interview: “Andy pulls one way, I pull the other. Where we meet in the middle – that’s the OMD sound.”
Cementing an imperious run that stretches back over the past decade, OMD’s album Bauhaus Staircase completes a hat-trick of magnificence started with English Electric in 2013. It even proves Andy…