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Pet Shop Boys
For this feature on the best Pet Shop Boys cover art, we’ve selected key examples of design excellence from the duo’s remarkable oeuvre… By Andrew Dineley With backgrounds respectively in…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
With Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe created a melancholy classic informed by death and infidelity… By Oliver Hurley Neil Tennant remembers the moment clearly: it was…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Very
Vibrant, Computeresque and chockablock with potential singles, 1993’s Pet Shop Boys: Very was built upon purest hyperpop and buoyed by a technicolour promo campaign, with Pet Shop Boys sharing responsibility…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Yes
Released in March 2009 Pet Shop Boys’ Yes found the duo teaming up with Brian Higgins and Xenomania, the UK’s top pop producers of the 2000s… By Ian Ravendale Pet…
Issue 70 of Classic Pop is on sale now!
In the latest Classic Pop, our cover star is Boy George who is celebrating his 60th birthday by unveiling an impressive haul of 60 new songs. We catch up with…
Classic Album: Pet Shop Boys – Actually
We look back at how the Pet Shop Boys’ second album was informed by Thatcherism, a 60s singer living in a hotel, Catholicism… and ZZ Top. By Oliver Hurley All…
Top 20 80s Collaborations
The pull of star power can be undeniable so it’s no surprise that some dream team hook-ups have made a major splash in the charts over the years. By Jon…
Top 40 80s debut albums
You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression, so many artists throw everything into their debut studio recordings. Let’s take a look at the finest examples by…
Classic Pop Issue 64 is on sale now
We’re back with a bang with our latest issue of Classic Pop magazine. Inside, we find out how Sparks have coped with lockdown and delve into the array of exciting…
New Releases: 17 April
There’s never been a better time to curl up with a good book, so check out some of our top page-turning recommendations… Sheila Rocks – Young Punks 7/10 One of…