Pop Spotlight

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 […]

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It’s the ultimate face-off as we count down our favourite 80s pop artists… It is, of course, the impossible task: distil music’s most creative and varied decade down to a mere 40 artists. The Classic […]

Photo credit: Alex Lake Manic Street Preachers have released new single, Decline & Fall, the band’s first new music since The Ultra Vivid Lament in September 2021. The lead track from their forthcoming 15th studio […]

Featuring founder members Nick Heyward, guitarist Graham Jones and bassist Les Nemes, Haircut One Hundred release their first new music in 40 years. The group’s new single, The Unloving Plum, came about when it seemed […]

  The Cure are set to release The Cure – Novembre: Live in France 2022, featuring live recordings of two new, previously unreleased, songs. The double A-Side 12″ single, released 1 October, is released on […]

Picture credit: Neil Kirk Bryan Ferry releases new song Star, a collaboration with performance artist Amelia Barratt his first original music release in over a decade. Feature on the upcoming 81-track album Retrospective: Selected Recordings […]

Photo credit: Simon Emmett Oasis Reunion: Liam and Noel Gallagher have ended years of feverish speculation with the confirmation of a long-awaited run of UK and Ireland shows forming the domestic leg of their OASIS […]

After a 35-year hiatus, Fairground Attraction are back – and finally ready to make that long overdue second album. In a Classic Pop exclusive, Eddi Reader and Mark Nevin share their emotional story of “reconciliation, […]

Review: Erasure – Cowboy (Reissue) ★★★★☆ Known to most devotees as ‘The album where Vince Clarke dressed as a cactus on tour’, 1997’s Cowboy is Erasure reminding fans and themselves what they stood for. After […]