Pop Spotlight

Picture Credit: Dave Freak Moseley Folk & Arts Festival, Birmingham, 30 August to 1 September 2024 ★★★★☆ Classic Pop heads to a folk festival to find Dexys, Belle And Sebastian, and CMAT all kicking up […]

Pet Shop Boys release Nonetheless ‘expanded edition’  featuring four bonus tracks and demos of all the album songs. Following their headline show at BBC Radio 2 in the Park in Preston, Pet Shop Boys have […]

Bruklin is making waves in the pop music world with her latest single, “Magic Show,” produced by industry heavyweights Oak Felder and Sebastian Cole. It’s an infectious blend of upbeat dance rhythms and catchy lyrics. […]

Jamiroquai celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Return Of The Space Cowboy with vinyl reissue. The second album from the acid jazz and funk collective fronted by vocalist Jay Kay,  will be reissued as a […]

Stevie Wonder shares new song, Can We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart, his first solo release since 2020. One of the most celebrated and iconic figures in popular music, Stevie Wonder’s call for unity is […]

Season 2 of Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order, comes to streaming sites. The series, featuring new and exclusive interviews with band members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Peter […]

Picture Credit: Anton Corbijn New Order announce Brotherhood ‘Definitive’, a new remastered boxset for their fourth studio album. Available in 2CD, 2DVD and 1LP, Brotherhood is the fourth in the New Order series of limited […]

Picture Credit: Jon Shard Delving into the Boomslang-era archive, Johnny Marr shares previously unheard recording of The Way That It Was with his band the Healers. The previously unreleased song, taken from the upcoming special […]

Top 20 80s cover versions Breathing fresh life into old classics or radically reinventing them, we celebrate 20 of the finest 80s cover versions The hit cover version is something of a rarity in today’s […]

Image Credit: Nick Spanos Marc Almond tells Classic Pop how his move from London to Portugal has reignited his passion for music and led to the new covers album, I’m Not Anyone… Although Marc Almond […]

  The Story Of 1984: It was a year of decisive statements and feeding the world, of technological advances and solo beginnings. Amidst political tension, the Olympic Games and the LGBTQ+ community gaining a voice […]

PSB were in full Latin flow for their sixth studio album… while it might not have spawned the poppiest music, Pet Shop Boys’ Bilingual certainly gave us some fantastic pop culture moments… 1996’s Bilingual was […]