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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CHINA IN THEIR HANDS – WHAM! SHOWS TO BE REVISITED

CHAKATAK! FUNK LEGEND IS BRINGING THE JOY

Blossoms have their cake and eat it

JANET JACKSON TOPS THE BILL AT SANDRINGHAM ESTATE SHOW

PAUL HEATON’S STROKE OF JENIUS

Compilation will feature rare Prince vault tracks

SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER • A MEMBER OF SPOTIFY’S ELITE BILLIONS CLUB, KISS ME IS ONE OF THE 90S’ MOST-STREAMED SONGS WHILE THE BAND ALSO BROUGHT THE LA’S TO WIDESPREAD ATTENTION IN THE UNITED STATES

JOHNNY MARR TUNES UP FOR A NEW AGE

Belle And Sebastian set to celebrate classic albums

1-HIT WONDER

ROGER TAYLOR TAKES A GLOBAL WORLDVIEW

Duran Duran hit the road for arena run

my POP life Jodie Whittaker • THE BROADCHURCH AND DOCTOR WHO STAR REFLECTS ON GROWING UP AS A KYLIE FAN, PETE TONG AND HER DEEP LOVE OF COLDPLAY

LOST & FOUND

MIS-TEEQ ANNOUNCE WEMBLEY COMEBACK

Appleton sisters get Ready To Begin again

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP • SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK TRIED TO INVENT THE FUTURE WITH SEX BOMB BOOGIE, PICKING UP WHERE THE HUMAN LEAGUE’S MIRROR MAN LEFT OFF. WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND THE VIDEO SINGLE FORMAT?

This month in POP AUGUST 1984 • PRINCE BEGINS A PURPLE CHART REIGN, A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS TAKE FLIGHT ONCE MORE AND, WHISPER IT, GEORGE MICHAEL RELEASES A DEFINING SOLO MOMENT

“MADONNA IS ALWAYS HERSELF. SHE’S INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND UNCOMPROMISING.” • A FULL 21 YEARS AFTER FIRST WORKING WITH MADONNA ON CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR, STUART PRICE IS BACK PRODUCING THE MEGASTAR ON THE EQUALLY VITAL CONFESSIONS II. IN AN EXTREMELY RARE INSIGHT INTO MADONNA’S CREATIVE PROCESS, PRICE TELLS CP ABOUT BRINGING CREATURE COMFORTS TO THE STUDIO, THE PRESSURES OF A SEQUEL AND WHY WORKING WITH THE POP ICON IS “LIKE BEING IN THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD.”

EXPRESSION OF A CONFESSION

GETTING EVEN MORE HUNG UP

IN A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS • A GROUP CRIMINALLY MISUNDERSTOOD AND MALIGNED IN THEIR NATIVE UK, YET WINNING ACCOLADES IN THE UNITED STATES, THEIR 1982 DEBUT IS A POST-PUNK DELIGHT THAT DESERVES TO BE REASSESSED AS THE CLASSIC IT CLEARLY IS

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

“ I’VE COME BACK TO MUSIC IN A DIFFERENT WAY” • ALTHOUGH IT TACKLES SUBJECTS SUCH AS OCD, PERIMENOPAUSE AND THE END OF A RELATIONSHIP, NATALIE IMBRUGLIA’S NEW ALBUM ALGORITHM IS A FLOORFILLER RESULTING FROM HER LATE DISCOVERY OF THE JOYS OF DANCE MUSIC. IN A WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW ABOUT HER PERSONAL STRUGGLES, NATALIE TELLS US OF VIEWING OCD AS A SUPERPOWER AND HER ADDICTION TO DOOMSCROLLING. “I’M NOT THE BEST SONGWRITER, BUT I’M A GOOD COMMUNICATOR,” SHE EXPLAINS.

A POSSIBLE AFTERLIFE

ENGLISH LESSONS

LIONEL RICHIE • FROM FUNK-FUELLED COMMODORE TO MOTOWN’S MASTER BALLADEER AND EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY, LIONEL RICHIE’S GENRE-BLENDING, UNDERSTATED, SONGWRITING PROPELLED HIM TO MUSIC’S MAJOR LEAGUE RIVALLING THE KING AND THE PRINCE OF POP

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