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Prince fans rejoice! The Purple One’s celebrated Sign O’ The Times New Year’s Eve concert from 1987 will premiere on YouTube this week. In the early hours of Friday morning…
Issue 65 of Classic Pop is on sale now!
In the latest issue of Classic Pop we have an exclusive interview with Vince Clarke and Andy Bell as Erasure return with superb new studio album, The Neon. Elsewhere, as…
Previously unheard version of Prince’s I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man is released
Prince’s legendary vault has offered up more treasure. A previously unheard version of I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man from 1979 has been revealed and acts as…
Classic Pop Issue 63 is on sale now
In the latest issue, we speak to Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette about The Boomtown Rats’ comeback as they return with their first studio album in 36 years. Elsewhere, we…
Top Ten Reissues Of 2019
2019 was an amazing year for reissues, with Prince, Prefab Sprout and Stephen Duffy all having key albums remastered. Here’s the Classic Pop roundup of the top ten reissues of last…
Top Twenty Covers Of Classic 80s Songs
Classic Pop serves up a very personal choice of our favourite covers of 80s classics – some faithful, some radical reinventions… It’s a testament to the skyscraping songwriting achievements of the…
New Releases: 21 February
Looking for some new pop tomes to leaf through at your leisure? Here’s some from the last couple of months that you may have missed… Randee St. Nicholas – My Name…
Q+A: Cat Glover
The choreographer, dancer and singer talks to Calum Waddell about working with Prince during his most purple of purple periods… Cat Glover was at the side of Prince as a…
The Revolution Interview: Prince 1999 reissue
It wasn’t until the fifth Prince album in 1982 that the world really began to take notice of the High Priest of Pop. Now, as 1999 becomes the Purple One’s…
Classic Album: Sign O’ The Times – Prince
After disbanding The Revolution in 1986, Prince returned as a one-man-band with a double album bristling with ideas, experimentation, eclecticism and superb musicianship, which saw him cement his position as…