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Happiness Not Included: Soft Cell announce new album
Soft Cell have shared details of their brand new album, Happiness Not Included, set for release in Spring 2022. The LP will be the first from Marc Almond and Dave…
Making Depeche Mode: Speak And Spell
Depeche Mode: Speak And Spell announced the arrival of one of the most important synth-pop bands of the 1980s. We look back on its making… It would have been hard…
Making Visage: Visage
Where would the New Romantic movement have been without Visage… or vice versa? The band’s self-titled debut album was the result of an almost supergroup-like meeting of talented individuals. Aiming…
Making Spandau Ballet: Journeys To Glory
Spandau Ballet: Journeys To Glory was the band’s debut album, peaking at No.5 after its release in March 1981. Guitarist/saxophonist Steve Norman talks to Classic Pop about its making… By…
Leslie Winer career retrospective announced
A 16-track retrospective of the Boy George-approved musician, poet and author Leslie Winer will showcase her groundbreaking three-decade career. Released by the Light In The Attic label, When I Hit…
Making New Order: Technique
Conceived amid a summer of hedonism during Ibiza’s infancy as a party capital, New Order: Technique was a groundbreaking record that continues to inspire more than 30 years on… By Mark…
Making Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Mark Lindores looks back at Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome, a double album that sold a quarter of a million copies in its first week… Exploding onto…
Making The Cure: Disintegration
On their eighth album, The Cure: Disintegration, the band turned their backs on the skewed brand of pop that had yielded a succession of hits, and opted instead for doom-laden…
INXS music to soundtrack new short film
A new short film is set to be soundtracked by the songs of INXS. Original Sin – The 7 Sins drops on 16 July on the Veeps streaming platform and…
Japan: Quiet Life – A Retrospective
Japan biographer and musician Anthony Reynolds looks at the origins of Japan: Quiet Life and the latest 2021 deluxe reissue with reflections from band members and associates… In early 1979,…