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Classic Album
Still adored nearly 30 years on, The Stone Roses rescued indie rock from shambling student bands and fired Manchester into a bright new musical future. Classic Pop charts the making…
Classic Album: Steve McQueen – Prefab Sprout
A new lease of life for songs lost to the bedroom, two brothers with Michael Jackson-sized ambitions, and a synth-pop pioneer at the controls – these were the ingredients necessary…
Classic Album: Songs Of Faith And Devotion – Depeche Mode
Following up the enormous success of Violator almost broke Depeche Mode. But despite Dave Gahan’s heroin addiction and inter-band fighting, with Songs Of Faith And Devotion they eventually created a…
Classic Album: Technique – New Order
Conceived amid a summer of hedonism during Ibiza’s infancy as a party capital, New Order returned home to the tranquillity of the English countryside to perfect their Technique, resulting in…
Classic Album: Club Classics Vol. One – Soul II Soul
Emerging from the underground sound system scene, Jazzie B and his collective of Funki Dreds gathered to make an album which incorporated a fusion of styles and influences to create…
Classic Album: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
The old adage decrees that the brightest star shines half as long and no group encapsulated that more than Frankie Goes To Hollywood, who made more of an impact in…
Classic Album: Architecture & Morality
Merging the machinations of German electronica with warm Merseyside melodies and otherworldly choral samples, on their third album, Architecture & Morality, OMD struck the perfect balance between experimentalism and commercial…
Classic Album: Like A Prayer – Madonna
Madonna’s fourth studio album is an immaculate collection of songs which saw the superstar looking inwards for divine inspiration – taking in grief, loss, redemption and empowerment. With the celestial Like…
Classic Album: Spirit Of Eden – Talk Talk
Twenty-five years ago, Talk Talk’s fourth LP was spurned upon its release, lasted only five weeks in the UK charts and led the band to take EMI to court. These…
Classic Album: Colour By Numbers – Culture Club
They were one of the most colourful acts of the decade, yet the vibrancy and melodies of Culture Club’s second opus belied the heartache and tensions that inspired it –…