The latest track from Steve Strange marked a change of direction for the former Visage frontman, created just before his untimely death. Strange died in February 2015 hospital in Eqypt…
Sparks – Hippopotamus album review
BMG 4/5 Songs about sex and about Scandinavian design. Songs about The Macbeths and about Edith Piaf. Yep, the Mael brothers are back, and as delightfully oddball as ever. If…
OMD – The Punishment of Luxury album review
White Noise 4/5 Halfway through OMD’s 13th album, there’s a brief piece – part song, part collage – entitled Precision & Decay, a requiem for Detroit’s industrial decline. A ghostly…
Classic Pop Presents: Stevie Wonder Special Edition
In the latest Classic Pop Presents, we celebrate the stellar career of the modern soul revolutionary, Stevie Wonder. Across 132 pages, we track Stevie’s life and career through the decades – from his…
Classic Pop Issue 34 is on sale now!
Issue 34 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now! Available from WH Smith, Tesco, Waitrose, independent newsagents and Eason priced £5.99, this month our cover stars are a-ha, those…
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream album review
DFA Records/Columbia 5/5 When LCD Soundsystem announced they were disbanding in 2011, a considerable song and dance was made about the news: a four-hour show at New York’s 20,000-capacity Madison…
Liam Gallagher – As You Were album review
Warner Bros Records 4/5 The unfairly maligned Beady Eye may not have set the world alight but the younger Gallagher brother’s solo debut is everything you could reasonably hope for.…
The Godfathers of Pop – Paul Heaton interview
Although born on Merseyside, Paul Heaton will forever be associated with Hull, where he formed The Housemartins and enjoyed hits with the jangle pop of Happy Hour and their a…
Lost & Found: Elton John – Leather Jackets
Elton John’s life troughed in the mid-80s, with a delinquent drug habit and a stodgy body of work. His 20th album, supposedly a milestone recording for him, remains the least…
One Hit Wonders: Cock Robin – The Promise You Made
There’s something endearingly sedate and conformist about Cock Robin’s only UK hit, which made the Top 30 in 1986. The vocals from Peter Kingsbery and Anna LaCazio are very precise…