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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Classic Pop

SOUNDBITES

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

WILLIAM ORBIT • 15 DECEMBER 1956 – 23 JULY 2026

NUTTY BOYS RETURN TO THE BIG SCREEN

Alison Moyet is top of the pods

Held By Trees call home

DAVID MCALMONT • ALONGSIDE BERNARD BUTLER, DAVID MCALMONT BROUGHT MUCH SOULFUL ELEGANCE AND SWAGGER TO THE MID-90s CHARTS. THREE DECADES LATER, HE REFLECTS ON THE SOUND OF… MCALMONT & BUTLER, A CLASSIC ALBUM THAT HE GAVE SHORT SHRIFT TO UNTIL RECENTLY.

1 HIT WONDER

ROXY MUSIC’S PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

DAVID Z • 25 MARCH 1948 – 2 AUGUST 2026

Stick ‘em up punk! Huey hits the road

Opal Records returns with two Eno gems

MARI WILSON • FAMED FOR SPORTING AN ICONIC BEEHIVE HAIRDO IN THE 80s, THE JAZZY VOCALIST RETURNS WITH EIGHTH ALBUM, GIRL ABOUT TOWN. THE SINGER ALSO REVEALS HOW MAKING IT ONTO TOP OF THE POPS WAS JUST WHAT SHE ALWAYS WANTED…

LOST & FOUND

GEORGE MICHAEL ARCHIVE IS PUT UP FOR AUCTION

Mariah’s Daydream believer

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP • EVER SPOTTED ‘RON MAEL’ IN A PAUL MCCARTNEY VIDEO? OR ‘PAUL’ IN A GEORGE HARRISON PROMO? WELCOME TO THE STRANGE ERA OF ARTISTS IMPERSONATING OTHERS TO PLUG THEIR OWN SINGLES…

This month in POP OCTOBER 1982 • THE SMITHS GET RITZY, CULTURE CLUB GRAB THE TOTP HEADLINES AND PETER GABRIEL REUNITES WITH OLD MUCKERS GENESIS

“This record is almost me putting all my other albums into a blender and dropping a fizzbomb into it” • After five solo albums, Johnny Marr is in the rare position of being a musician in his sixties whose audience keeps growing. So how does he stop himself from getting complacent? In a wide-ranging interview, Johnny tells us of keeping his neighbours awake, paying tribute to Mani, trying not to be too profound, the need to shake his career up… and why he’s desperate to get Nile Rodgers off the stage.

REISSUE, REPACKAGE, REPACKAGE? E?

SET THE BOOK FREE

THE WHOLE TRUTH

CLASSIC ALBUM SILK & STEEL FIVE STAR • ENGLAND’S ANSWER TO THE JACKSON 5 TOPPED THE UK CHARTS WITH THEIR 1986 SECOND ALBUM OF SHARP, R&B-INFUSED ELECTROPOP, WHILE SECURING A LANDMARK AWARD AT THE BRITS. 40 YEARS ON, DOES THE RECORD STILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME?

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

“WITH ME AND ADAM, THE DOMINOES ALL FELL IN THE RIGHT PLACE” • Marco Pirroni’s revelatory new autobiography finally tells the story of the usually elusive Adam And The Ants guitarist, who was Adam Ant’s right-hand man throughout their glory days. From making sense of big ideas to the Ants’ chaotic final meal together, join Pirroni as he tells us: “Nobody gets into music so that their single reaches No.28.”

THE WOW FACTOR WAR

CAMEO APPEARANCE

ALBUM BY ALBUM THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH • IN A CAREER SPANNING TWO DECADES, THEY RECORDED 10 STUDIO ALBUMS AND RACKED UP 22 UK TOP 40 HIT SINGLES – JOIN US AS WE CARRY ON UP THE CHARTS WITH HULL’S MOST SUCCESSFUL BAND

SUPER FAN

DEVOTED FANS SHOW US THEIR COLLECTIONS AND POP MEMORABILIA • KIM WILDE MAGDALENA JONES WEYBRIDGE, SURREY

OFFENSIVE MANOEUVRES • AS THEY RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM YOU MAY...