Issue 10 of Classic Pop is out now! For this very special issue of Classic Pop we bring you our Synthpop Special where we have brought together four pioneers of…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 35-31
35 Duran Duran: Rio We’re getting higher and higher up our Top 100, so the Duran Duran quotient is starting to increase (though we were taken aback that Rio –…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 40-36
40 Electronic: Getting Away With It This may be Electronic’s only appearance in our chart, but all of the group’s members – Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr and guest Neil Tennant…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 45-41
45 Associates: Party Fears Two Associates’ biggest hit – this one reached number nine in the UK in February 1982 – it’s since lasted a generation, not for its posturing…
New Echo And The Bunnymen Album And Tour
Echo And The Bunnymen have announced their new album Meteorites to be released on 429 Records, May 5th. A UK and European tour to support the album begins on May…
‘Evolution Of Friars’ Exhibiton
The Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury is now hosting ‘The Evolution Of Friars’ exhibition that features rare posters, photos and memorabilia from the Friars club archive. The exhibition runs until…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 50-46
50 Soft Cell: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye By reaching number three in the UK charts in 1982, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye was the single that proved Soft Cell weren’t just…
Belinda Carlisle On Vintage TV
Be sure to tune in to Vintage TV on Tuesday 25th March, 10.30pm to see Belinda Carlisle: Needle Time (also showing on Sunday 30th March at 8.00pm)
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 55-51
55 Heaven 17: Temptation Heaven 17’s finest moment, Temptation has a split personality: sometimes, it’s the 1983 UK number-two original with Glenn Gregory duelling with Carole Kenyon (as performed on…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 60-56
60 Tears for Fears: Mad World Curt Smith claims that when Tears For Fears wrote Mad World back in 1982, he and Roland Orzabal had absolutely no idea it would…