Issue 10 of Classic Pop is out now! For this very special issue 10 of Classic Pop we bring you our Synthpop Special where we have brought together four pioneers…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 40-31
Our Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 40 Electronic: Getting Away With It This may be Electronic’s only appearance in our chart, but all of the group’s members…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 50-41
Our Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 50 Soft Cell: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye By reaching number three in the UK charts in 1982, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye…
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…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 65-61
65 Depeche Mode: Everything Counts We counted up the votes for Everything Counts but – oops – forgot to qualify which version people were voting for, as it’s been a…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 70-66
70 Toto: Africa Someone somewhere should compile one of those petrol-station compilations called Smooth Driving Sounds Volume 90 and fill it only with Toto’s Africa, on a loop, because nothing…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 75-71
75 Madonna: Like A Prayer It’s funny to think now that this single – released at the end of the Eighties – was seen as a big comeback single for…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 80-76
80 George Michael: A Different Corner “This record is dedicated to a memory,” reads a note from George Michael on the rear sleeve of this, his second solo single and…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 85-81
85 Prince: Purple Rain For such a reliable Eighties hit-maker, it’s surprising that only two Prince singles have made it into our Top 100. Let’s Go Crazy, 1999 and Raspberry…