Pop Spotlight

Picture supplied Pet Shop Boys have remixed ‘lost’  Tina Turner  track, Hot For You Baby. Earlier this year, the 40th anniversary celebrations of Tina Turner’s Private Dancer kicked off with the release of a never-before-heard song, […]

Picture credit: Simon Emmett Despite a late-career flourish with Saucerful Of Secrets, a smash hit podcast and establishing himself as a solo artist, Gary Kemp wasn’t in a good place when he began his latest […]

For fans unable to secure a ticket for the hottest seat in town, these classic live albums offer the next best thing. Words by Barry Page Crucial snapshots of an unrepeatable moment in time or […]

Soft Cell will reissue their classic remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing on the 20 June via Universal Music. The 1982 original is fully remastered and bolstered by the inclusion of… You have reached your monthly […]

Picture credit: David Leigh Dodd Wendy James announces UK tour in support of her recently released album, The Shape of History. Written, produced and mixed by James and recorded in West London and New York […]

Image credit J Moore Roland Gift presents Fine Young Cannibals at 40 anniversary shows. Forty years since double Brit-Award winners, The Fine Young Cannibals (FYC), stormed into the UK charts with their debut single and […]

Toyah Willcox has announced two special October shows in London and Coventry. Celebrating ‘The Best of Toyah’ will see the singer perform hits from across her career, treating audiences to her signature powerhouse vocals, infectious […]

Mixes Of A Lost World, conceived and compiled by Robert Smith, is a new remix collection of tracks from The Cure’s acclaimed No.1 2024 album, Songs Of A Lost World. The set features brand new remixes […]

Hansa International Japanese cover 1981  Japanese Boy was a hit pretty much everywhere except, oddly enough, Japan. According to singer Mary Sandeman, it was because the melody sounded too Chinese.  No matter, as elsewhere, this throbbing […]

Various Artists – More Sin: Box Of Sin 2 (Demon) ★★★★½ Disco Discharge’s second round-up of the tracks that rocked the gay clubs of the 80s is a delight – and an education Gay clubs […]

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A-HA SPECIAL ISSUE ➔ Marking the 40th anniversary of a-ha’s classic debut album Hunting High And Low, this brand new issue of Classic Pop Presents celebrates the career and legacy of one of the 80s […]