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A rundown of all the Kate Bush albums, from 1978’s The Kick Inside to 2016’s Before The Dawn… By Mark Lindores The Kick Inside Released 1978 Label EMI Chart…
The Stock Aitken Waterman Story
In this history of the hitmaking trio behind Kylie, Jason and Mel And Kim, we tell the Stock Aitken Waterman story… By Matthew Lindsay By 1984, Pete Waterman was already…
Top 15 Electropop Albums
In our list of the best electropop albums, we look back at 40-plus years of cutting edge music… By Oliver Hurley 15 HEAVEN 17 – PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT (1981) The debut…
Eurythmics: Annie Lennox interview
In this exclusive Eurythmics interview from 2018, we talk to Annie Lennox about her and Dave Stewart’s relationship, their music, their 40-year career and the future of their partnership… By…
Top 40 ABBA Songs
In our list of the top ABBA songs we count down from 40 to 1… By Ian Ravendale With their worldwide sales numbering somewhere around an estimated, though difficult to…
Top 15 Sophisti-Pop Albums
By mixing elements of jazz, R&B and soul, a new wave of artist emerged during the mid-80s, bringing with them a certain cultured elegance to the charts. Here is our…
Happy Mondays interview
In this Happy Mondays interview from 2017, we speak to charismatic frontman Shaun Ryder, plus fellow survivors Mark Day and Rowetta… By Steve Harnell Every decade gets the double bill…
Making Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
In 1980 Dexys Midnight Runners arrived with their debut LP, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, an album that reinvented American soul through a gritty British lens… By Gary Tipp…
Prefab Sprout Albums – The Complete Guide
All of the Prefab Sprout albums are worth a place in every pop fan’s record collection. Here we take a trip through the band’s peerless back catalogue… By John Earls…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
With Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe created a melancholy classic informed by death and infidelity… By Oliver Hurley Neil Tennant remembers the moment clearly: it was…