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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Say No To Socks

DAVE BALL • 3 MAY 1959 – 22 OCTOBER 2025

HAIRCUT ONE HUNDRED CONFIRM LONG-AWAITED ALBUM RETURN

STOP PRESS • CAREER-SPANNING SET HIGHLIGHTS HOW THE STAR WAS UNTOUCHABLE DURING A LONG IMPERIAL PHASE

NOW turns back the clock to the early 60s

Tom Bailey tours Thompson Twins’ greatest hits

1 HIT WONDER

JIMMY SOMERVILLE DARES TO LOVE AGAIN

ULTRAVOX EXPAND ACCLAIMED COMPILATION

NORTHSIDE • WITH THE PROMISE OF NEW MATERIAL THREE-AND-A-HALF DECADES AFTER CHICKEN RHYTHMS WENT TOP 20, NORTHSIDE ARE SET TO MAKE A RETURN. SINGER WARREN “DERMO” DERMODY TELLS CLASSIC POP WHY IT’S TAKEN THEM SO LONG.

LOST & FOUND

ANDY BELL’S TEN CROWNS RETURNS AS FOUR-DISC SET

MARR SET TO BOWL OVER HOMETOWN CROWD

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP • HOW DO YOU JOIN ONE ALBUM PROJECT OR ERA WITH THE NEXT, EVEN IF YOU’RE TURNING A PAGE, STARTING A NEW CHAPTER, OR EVEN SHEDDING YOUR SKIN?

D’ANGELO • 11 FEBRUARY 1974 – 14 OCTOBER 2025

Ocean and Pellow set to join forces

MONDAYS GEMS GET SINGLED OUT

This month in POP DECEMBER 1982 • THE JAM CALL IT A DAY, TONI BASIL HITS THE TOP AND BOWIE’S BING CROSBY PAIR-UP FINALLY GETS SOME FESTIVE CHART ACTION

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART • 19 DECEMBER 1982

Danger! High Voltage • WHAT STARTED OUT AS A FUN WAY TO BRING ROBERT PALMER AND CHIC TO DURAN DURAN’S MASS AUDIENCE ENDED UP BECOMING ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL – AND CHAOTIC – SUPERGROUPS IN MUSIC HISTORY. AS THE POWER STATION TOAST THEIR 40TH ANNIVERSARY, ANDY TAYLOR AND (IN HIS ONLY INTERVIEW) JOHN TAYLOR CELEBRATE CREATING A UNIQUE GROOVE WHILE BEING TOTALLY ON THE RAMPAGE. “THE SKILLSET IN THAT BAND WAS ENORMOUS,” THEY TELL US.

NAKED AMBITION

LIVE AID’S DOUBLE SHIFT

A LIFE OF VICE

SUPER TROUPER ABBA • SWEDEN’S NATIONAL TREASURES BROUGHT HEARTBREAK TO THE DANCEFLOOR ON THEIR IMPECCABLE SEVENTH ALBUM. WHILE THEIR PRIVATE LIVES WERE IN DISARRAY, IT WOULD BECOME THE UK’S BIGGEST-SELLING LP OF 1980.

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

“WE WERE A GROUP THAT WAS BIGGER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS” • ONE OF THE MOST GLORIOUSLY MULTI-LAYERED POP ALBUMS EVER MADE, PROPAGANDA’S A SECRET WISH IS THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF A BAND WHO NEVER QUITE GOT IT TOGETHER AFTERWARDS, WITH THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AS COMPLEX AS THEIR MUSIC. AS A NEW BOXSET HONOURS ITS MAJESTY, ALL FOUR MEMBERS CELEBRATE THEIR ACHIEVEMENT – AND VOW TO BE FRIENDLY WHEN DISCUSSING THEIR MASTERPIECE.

FRANKIE SAY… WHAT?

WEMBLEY WAY

THE PRETENDERS • CHRISSIE HYNDE HAS ANCHORED THE BAND THROUGH VARIOUS SHIFTING LINE-UP CHANGES AND NEW ERAS – BLENDING RAW ENERGY, SHARP SONGWRITING AND UNDENIABLE ATTITUDE ACROSS DECADES

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“We’re not in a tribe. We always wanted to be more expansive than that.” • AS THE MANCHESTER LEGENDS RELEASE A WEIGHTY NEW 58-TRACK CAREER RETROSPECTIVE NOTHING BUT LOVE, TIM BOOTH, JIM GLENNIE AND SAUL DAVIES LOOK BACK ON THE MUCH-LOVED BAND’S MUSICAL...