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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NEW U2 EP PACKS A POLITICAL PUNCH

SOFT CELL REVEAL RSD DANCETERIA REMIXES

80s WEEKENDER HITS BLACKPOOL

GRACE JONES TO BOWL OVER THE CAPITAL

BERNARD BUTLER • BERNARD BUTLER IS BACK FOR ANOTHER FIRESIDE STRUM WITH HIS SUPERGROUP OF ACOUSTIC TROUBADOURS, BUTLER, BLAKE & GRANT. CLASSIC POP SPEAKS WITH THE PRODUCER AND FORMER SUEDE GUITARIST ABOUT A RICH SEAM OF CELTIC COLLABORATIONS AND A USEFUL CONNECTION TO ALTERED IMAGES’ CLARE GROGAN.

1 HIT WONDER

HUE AND CRY TAKE ELECTRONIC ROUTE ON NEW ALBUM

LOST & FOUND

WINGS TAKE FLIGHT IN NEW MACCA DOCUMENTARY

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU THIS AUTUMN

EG WHITE • THE IVOR NOVELLO-WINNING SONGWRITER AND EX-BROTHER BEYOND MEMBER REFLECTS ON HIS TIME IN EG AND ALICE AND THEIR SOON-TO-BE REISSUED ALBUM, 24 YEARS OF HUNGER

RICK IS WAITING ON YOU

SYNTH ICONS GET PLUGGED INTO ELECTRIC SUMMER

NEIL TENNANT: PAPERBACK WRITER

My POP life Charlie Condou • THE CORONATION STREET AND HOLBY CITY ACTOR AND LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST TALKS ABOUT HIS LOVE OF MICHAEL JACKSON AND PRINCE AND HOW BEING PHOTOGRAPHED WITH OLIVIA RODRIGO MIGHTILY IMPRESSED HIS DAUGHTER…

This month in POP APRIL 1984 • A DAY OF RECKONING FOR R.E.M., PHIL COLLINS HITS NO.1 STATESIDE, THE CURE CRAWL INTO THE UK SINGLES CHART AND MARVIN GAYE MEETS A TRAGIC END AT THE HANDS OF HIS FATHER

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART

“FRANKIE HAD TO PUSH BOUNDARIES, TO BE SOMETHING WHERE YOUNG PEOPLE TELL THEIR PARENTS AND CORPORATIONS TO GO TO HELL” • FROM FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD DEMOLISHING THE CHARTS WHILE RESEMBLING A HYBRID OF FETISH WEAR AND MAD MAX CYBERPUNK TO THEIR TRIUMPHANT REUNION AT EUROVISION VIA AN EARWORM SOLO CAREER, HOLLY JOHNSON IS ONE OF OUR MOST MAGNIFICENT POP STARS. IN HIS FIRST IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW FOR CLASSIC POP, HOLLY TELLS THE STORY BEHIND THE BAND’S INCREDIBLE RISE AND FALL, STRIKING OUT ON HIS OWN, AND A HEARTBREAKING REUNION WITH HIS FATHER.

FRANKIE’S LIVE AID FAUX PAS

ARCH PROPAGANDA

SPITTING MAD

CLASSIC ALBUM SEAL • AS THE BURGEONING UK RAVE SCENE EXPLODED INTO THE MAINSTREAM, SEAL’S 1991 SELF-TITLED TREVOR HORN-PRODUCED DEBUT ESTABLISHED THE SINGER-SONGWRITER AS A GLOBAL ICON, BLENDING ACID HOUSE WITH SOULFUL VOCALS

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

“MAYBE THAT NEW ROMANTIC AND BLITZ CLUB SCENE WERE ALL FRIENDS, BUT WE WERE THE OUTLIERS” • FORTY YEARS SINCE FORMING, CAROL DECKER AND RONNIE ROGERS, AKA T’PAU, ARE BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM AND UK TOUR. CLASSIC POP TALKS TO THE FLAME-HAIRED FRONTWOMAN ABOUT MUSIC PRESS HOSTILITY, THE MESSY END OF THE GROUP’S FIRST INCARNATION AND HER CURRENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BAND’S SIGNATURE SONG.

A wealth of Wonderful new tunes

One from the family album

ABC • HAVING MELDED STEEL CITY WITH SIN CITY ON AN ERA-DEFINING DEBUT, THE MARTIN FRY-FRONTED SHEFFIELD SHAPESHIFTERS HAVE COVERED A WIDE RANGE OF GENRES OVER THEIR NINE STUDIO ALBUMS

RETURN TO THE WILD • TANKS! YETIS! COCONUTS! PAUL M CCARTNEY ON VEGETABLE PERCUSSION! AS SUPER FURRY ANIMALS JOIN FORCES ONCE MORE FOR A MUCH-ANTICIPATED TOUR AND AN...