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Louise Wener interview: “It’s something we want to do for the pure joy of it”
In 2017, Louise Wener performed with her old band Sleeper for the first time in 20 years. Laura K Williams talked to the Britpop veteran about how it felt strapping…
No smoke without fire: The 80s rebirth of David Bowie
After a few years out of the spotlight, a bleached-blonde Bowie returned in 1983 with Let’s Dance and achieved greater global fame than ever before. Classic Pop charts the moment…
a-ha interview: “Diplomacy doesn’t really work in a-ha”
Seemingly on the verge of splitting for the third time when last year’s documentary a-ha: The Movie brought their simmering tensions to the boil, with typical contrariness the band are…
Classic Pop Celebrates New Order & Joy Division
Four decades on from the release of seminal single Blue Monday, we pay tribute to New Order and Joy Division, two of Manchester’s finest bands, in this brand new issue. In this…
Duran Duran’s Medazzaland – a look back
Medazzaland is Duran Duran’s great lost album – until now. Finally getting a physical release 25 years after it was due out, it’s the record that could have easily sunk…
Making Michael Jackson’s Bad
Five years after Thriller took the world by storm, Michael Jackson was back from breaking records to making them. However, following up his best-selling album came with an enormous amount…
Classic Pop Presents 1983
Our brand new issue, Classic Pop Presents 1983, is here! Our 1980s series continues with 1983, the year when pop hit the stratosphere, ruling the world’s Walkmans with some of…
Making Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses
We revisit the Mode’s game changer – an adventurous, hedonistic drive into unchartered territory that brought them both critical and commercial acclaim… There’s only so long you can play the…
Things that dreams are made of: The birth of synth-pop
Kraftwerk may have gotten there first, but it was the British groups of the late 70s and early 80s who picked up the electronic baton and ran with it. The…