Classic Pop

Classic Pop magazine is the ultimate celebration of great pop and chart music - featuring both the stars of yesteryear and the classic pop-inspired acts breaking today, Classic Pop brings you closer to the genre and music you love. Each issue – with 80s pop at its core – brings you the very best exclusive artist interviews, in-depth features, music news and reviews celebrating the finest acts from the late-70s post-punk scene through to the pop, synth-pop, New Romantic, ska, indie, electronic and guitar greats of the 80s and chart stars of the 90s – plus the best new acts that embrace our classic pop heritage.

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FAITH RESTORED FOR NEW GEORGE TOUR FILM

MOYET WILL REVISIT YAZOO ON UK TOUR

KIM WILDE EXPLORES HER SINGLES LIFE

Sandringham Estate welcomes pop royalty

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS • WITH THEIR 24TH STUDIO ALBUM THE WORLD IS TO DIG RELEASED THIS MONTH, JOHN LINNELL, ONE HALF OF THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, TELLS CP HOW HE AND HIS MUSICAL PARTNER JOHN FLANSBURGH MAINTAIN THEIR FRESHNESS ON YET ANOTHER BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED LP FULL OF SARDONIC LYRICS AND INDELIBLE HOOKS

1-HIT WONDER

URE DOUBLES UP ON EXPANSIVE NEW ALBUM

Christmas comes early for Hadley fans

LOST & FOUND

IDOL PLEASURES OF CANDID DOCUMENTARY

More star names added to RetroCon UK

LOOKING AHEAD TO BILLY’S GIGS

KRAFTWERK RECHARGE CLASSIC ALBUM

Transvision revamped

CLARE GROGAN • ALTERED IMAGES ENJOYED MAINSTREAM SUCCESS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BLOCKS IN 1981 WITH THEIR DEBUT ALBUM HAPPY BIRTHDAY. TO CELEBRATE ITS 45TH ANNIVERSARY, THE BAND, FRONTED BY CLARE GROGAN, HEAD OUT ON TOUR IN SEPTEMBER TO PLAY IT IN ITS ENTIRETY.

This month in POP M AY 1987 • WHITNEY NEEDS A DANCE PARTNER, STARSHIP BLAST THEIR WAY TO THE TOP AND THE CURE GET ROMANTIC

A NEW DECADE • AS DURAN DURAN FINALLY REISSUE THEIR TWO ELUSIVE 1990s ALBUMS ON VINYL, NICK RHODES AND JOHN TAYLOR LOOK BACK AT A TIME WHEN THEIR GUITARIST’S LIVING ROOM PROVED KEY TO HELPING THE BAND TO SURVIVE – AND THEY ALSO CONFIRM NEWS OF A BRAND NEW SINGLE AND OTHER FUTURE PROJECTS. “WE NEED SOMETHING TO LIFT PEOPLE’S SPIRITS,” RHODES TELLS CP.

“WE TRIED TO TAP INTO A PROGRESSIVE GROOVE-POP VIBE” • DURAN’S BASSIST JOHN TAYLOR REFLECTS ON THE BAND’S LATEST REISSUES AND UPCOMING NEW MUSIC…

OMD JUNK CULTURE • STEEL DRUMS! SILLY SHIRTS! MILES DAVIS! BLADE RUNNER! A YEAR ON FROM THE CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL DISAPPOINTMENT OF DAZZLE SHIPS, OMD RETURNED WITH A NEW LOOK AND A FRESH SOUND FOR THEIR CAREER-SAVING FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM.

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SCALES OF INJUSTICE • Tori Amos has never shied away from difficult subject matter – and new double album In Times Of Dragons finds her confronting the US crisis of democracy head on. “I was guided by the muses to make this in allegory story form. But this isn’t based on a fantasy,” she tells Classic Pop.

BREAKING THEIR SILENCE

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

STEVIE NICKS • RENOWNED FOR HER SHIMMERING VIBRATO, SOAP OPERA PERSONAL LIFE AND SORCERESS IMAGE, THE SINGER-SONGWRITER HELPED PROPEL FLEETWOOD MAC INTO THE PANTHEON OF ALL-TIME GREATS BEFORE LAUNCHING A SPORADIC SOLO CAREER WHICH CONSISTENTLY MINED POP GOLD

TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 26 MAY 1982 • ADAM ANT GOES SOLO AND VINCE CLARKE DEBUTS YAZOO WHILE THE NUTTY BOYS CLAIM TOP SPOT WITH A CHIPPER NUMBER WITH COVERT EUPHEMISMS

“TO THOSE OF US THAT WEREN’T IN PUNK BANDS, THERE WAS A DIFFERENT AVENUE TO SUCCESS” • FOR HIS LATEST VENTURE, THE FORWARD-LOOKING THOMAS DOLBY IS DIVING INTO THE PAST – BOTH HIS 1980 S GOLDEN AGE AND THE CENTURIES OF LEGACY OF THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. IT’S HIS OWN SELF-CONFESSED FINAL FRONTIER…

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