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Shedding his past, George Michael ditched the fun and sunshine of Wham!, looked inwards for inspiration and bared all in order to create his first true masterpiece… By Mark Lindores…
Lost & Found: The B-52’s – Whammy!
After the kitsch triumph of their eponymous debut album from 1979 (which contained keynote track Rock Lobster) and its follow-up Wild Planet (1980), by 1983 Athens, Georgia, five-piece The B-52’s…
Pop Art: Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke has a unique and consistent sound, but the ways in which his recorded body of work has been visually represented varies wildly. His releases have been packaged by…
Propaganda: Do You Want To Know A Secret?
While Frankie were wowing the world in 1983 and 1984, another ZTT band was producing a record to rival Pleasuredome in the long run. In this archive interview from 2018,…
Lost & Found: Fuzzbox – Big Bang!
Fuzzbox, or We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It!!, were for everyone in 1989. Girls loved their swaggering brand of colourful feminism, boys just thought they looked fantastic. …
a-ha: Living A Three Boys’ Adventure Tale
a-ha are the dark, dolorous boy band, One Direction raised on Joy Division and Ingmar Bergman. Not a boy band at all then – just the greatest exponents of soaringly…
John Foxx: Howling Into The Void
In 1980, John Foxx predicted a terrifying dystopian future with his incredible synthetic masterpiece Metamatic. The future he predicted is now here, and it’s worse – far worse –…
One Hit Wonder: Club Nouveau – Lean On Me
This cover of the classic Bill Withers track was good enough to win a Grammy in 1987, but it wasn’t the signpost to bigger things for this pop and New…
Album By Album: Nick Heyward
The much-loved singer-songwriter has embraced pop, soul, funk and folk across a diverse hook-laden life in music. By Steve Harnell Pelican West Released 1982 Label Arista Records Producer Bob Sargeant…
Classic Album: Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring
After starting life as one of many bands cynically marketed by record companies to cash in on the New Romantic scene, on third studio album The Colour Of Spring Talk…