Just when you thought Madonna couldn’t get any more successful, her third album True Blue turned her into a global phenomenon, and gave us some of the most most iconic…
Midge Ure on The Gift
With his debut solo album The Gift recently reissued as a lavish boxset, Midge Ure recalls his annus mirabilis – when not even Joe Dolce could stop him hitting the…
Soft Cell interview: “Being a pop star was a weird secret I had to keep to myself”
Re-examining work from both ends of their career, Soft Cell have just released two companions to 2022’s comeback album *Happiness Not Included as well as a mammoth boxset of their…
Madonna: The Blond Ambition Tour – the greatest show on Earth
Hitting the road to promote her confessional opus Like A Prayer, Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour was a non-stop erotic cabaret blending sex, religion and spectacle. Taking elements of Broadway, high…
Popscene – Smooth Soul
Into the eye of the quiet storm with the finest artists the genre had to offer… What is it? Soul is a genre with many tentacles, from the salty R&B…
My Pop Life – Gary Davies
The Radio 2 DJ and former Top Of The Pops presenter on his musical passions… Who were your musical heroes while growing up? Early days, I guess it would have…
Top 40 New Order songs – ranked!
For over four decades, New Order have given us some of the most thrilling and genre-busting tracks ever recorded. Here’s our rundown of their very best… Over 40-plus years now,…
Top 40 greatest Madonna songs
Classic Pop and a team of Madonna devotees review the Queen of Pop’s back catalogue to decide on her all-time greatest tracks Madonna’s desire to endlessly shapeshift, to fully embrace…
Andrew Ridgeley interview: “Wham! was our friendship set to music”
For the first time since George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley professionally parted company in 1986, a major Wham! reissue is happening, with a singles compilation and 7” boxset. As their…
Classic Album – Madonna: Confessions On A Dance Floor
We take a look back at Madonna’s 10th album, the 2005 classic, Confessions On A Dance Floor “ABBA on drugs”. That, supposedly, was Madonna’s brief for what would become album…