BOOK & SCREEN REVIEWS

WELCOME

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POP UP

Summer may only just have ended, but A-ha’s Magne Furuholmen

1-HIT WONDER

What Lincolnshire singer Graham Bonnet lacked in a

LOST & FOUND

Essex model Nick Kamen, in his pristine Sunspel boxers

Q+A TERRI NUNN

THE BERLIN SINGER TELLS PAUL KIRKLEY ABOUT REUNITING WITH HER FORMER BANDMATES AND TEASES THE GROUP’S FIRST NEW MUSIC IN 35 YEARS…

POP QUIZ

1 What was the name of Michael Hutchence’s side project

GODFATHERS OF POP DANIELE DAVOLI

As rave culture landed in 1989, this pivotal year in

IAN PEEL’S A TO Z of POP

A CHANCE TWITTER CONVERSATION HAD ME THINKING ABOUT ONE OF THE GREAT LOST FORMATS OF THE CLASSIC POP ERA. WHERE EXACTLY DID THE CASSINGLE COME FROM, WHERE DID IT GO, AND WHY DID IT LEAVE SUCH AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION?

THIS MONTH IN…POP OCTOBER 1985

IN OUR ROUND-UP OF OCTOBER 1985’S BIGGEST MOMENTS IN MUSIC, A-HA GO TO NO.1, THE CURE GO TO CANADA AND SIOUXSIE’S KNEE ACTUALLY GOES… POP

TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 8 OCTOBER 1989

VIDEO LIP-SYNC TRIPLE OF BLACK BOX, TECHNOTRONIC AND

We were all part of a brotherhood

THEY WERE THE AUSSIE GANG WHO COULD HAVE ENDED UP AS PETROL PUMP ATTENDANTS. INSTEAD, INXS CONQUERED THE WORLD AND BECAME EMBROILED IN A SAGA OF DRUGS, GHOSTS, UNDIAGNOSED MENTAL ILLNESS, SUPERMODELS AND, ULTIMATELY, A TRAGIC DEATH. AS TWO NEW FILMS REMIND EVERYONE OF THEIR LEGACY, THE SURVIVING BAND MEMBERS AND THEIR MANAGER TELL CLASSIC POP HOW THEY BECAME NEW SENSATIONS.

CLASSIC ALBUM CONTROL JANET JACKSON

EMERGING FROM THE SHADOW OF HER BIG BROTHERS, JANET’S THIRD ALBUM SAW HER PRESENT A SET OF ANTHEMS ON WHICH SHE DISPLAYED INDEPENDENCE, STRENGTH AND SELF-WORTH. BOASTING JAM AND LEWIS’ PRISTINE, CUTTING-EDGE PRODUCTION, CONTROL ESTABLISHED MISS JACKSON AS A STAR IN HER OWN RIGHT.

FUTURE ROCK

WILDLY INVENT I VE, EXPERIMENTAL AND AHEAD OF THEIR T IME, THE FIRST THREE ULTRAVOX ALBUMS FEAR LESSLY CLEARED A T RAI L THAT OTHERS WOULD FOLLOW. FOUR OF THOSE WHO WERE THERE – JOHN FOX X, CHRIS CROSS, WARREN CANN AND ROBIN SIMON – LOOK BACK TO THE LATE 1970s. JONATHAN WRIGHT L IST ENS IN…

ISLAND LIFE

THE FIRST THREE ALBUMS

ALBUM BY ALBUM GRACE JONES

THREE D IST INCT PHASES MARK THE CAREER O F THIS MOST S INGULAR A RT IST – D ISCO, REGGAE AND DUB EXCURSIONS FOL LOWED BY A L L -OUT COMMERCIAL POP

IN THE FRAME

IN THIS EX TRACT FROM THE NEWLY- PUBL ISHED DEPECHE MODE: FAITH & DEVOTION BY IAN GIT TINS, WE TAKE UP THE STORY AS THE BAND ARE REEL ING FROM THE EXIT OF FOUNDER MEMBER VINCE CLARKE AND WELCOME ALAN WI LDER TO THE FOLD

AND THEN THERE WAS…

AT THEIR 80s PEAK, FIVE STAR LIVED THE HIGH LIFE IN A BERKSHIRE MANSION AND DROVE A FLEET OF SUPERCARS. NOW IN THE GROUP’S LATEST INCARNATION, DENISE PEARSON IS BACK FRONTING A NEW VERSION OF THE GROUP WITHOUT HER SIBLINGS. “I’M STILL HOLDING THE TORCH,” SHE TELLS DAVID BURKE

THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY CONQUERED

It’s an idyllic recording space in the middle of nowhere that can only be reached by boat or foot, yet the Sawmills Studio in Cornwall has attracted everyone from XTC to Oasis, who recorded their defining album, Definitely Maybe, there. Andy Jones traces the incredible history of the most unlikely hit-making studio in the UK.

FOUR FROM THE SAW

Ruth Taylor recalls the household names who have recorded iconic work at Sawmills over the years…

Classic Pope

WITH A LANDMARK LIVE SHOW BY THE CURE ABOUT TO HIT DVD, WE TALK TO ITS DIRECTOR, TIM POPE, ABOUT HIS WORK WITH THE BAND AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER SEMINAL ACTS. FROM BEATLES COVERS TO HOMOEROTIC WELLER ON A RIVERBANK AND S&M DWARFS, IT’S A CAREER FULL OF SURPRISES.

THE KID AND I

THE TROPICAL GANGSTER KID CREOLE? TRAVELLING SHOWMAN AUGUST DARNELL? NATIVE NEW YORKER AND FORMER ENGLISH TEACHER TOM BROWDER? THE LEADER OF KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS HAS MORE IDENTITIES THAN DAVID BOWIE AND IS JUST AS SUAVE. AFTER GOING THROUGH EVERY RECORD COMPANY IN TOWN, THE KID EXPLAINS WHY HE’S LEARNING FROM HIS MISTAKES TO LAUNCH HIS OWN LABEL.

REVIEWS

NEW RELEASES P80

SINGLES

THE HOST OF FORGOTTEN 80s ON ABSOLUTE 80s RADIO CHECKS

NEW RELEASES

DIFFERENT BUT EXQUISITELY THE SAME, THE LILAC TIME RETURN WITH THEIR TRADEMARK BUCOLIC POP CUT THROUGH WITH MUSINGS ON A WORLD GONE MAD

REISSUES

SOUVENIR/SOUVENIR – THE SINGLES 1979-2019

LIVE & EVENTS

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CLASSIC POP MOMENTS

SINÉAD O’CONNOR TEARS UP A PHOTO OF THE POPE ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE