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POP-UP

The Specials’ already-fantastic 2019 just keeps on

1-HIT WONDER

If ever there was a time the British music industry

LOST & FOUND

Tracey Ullman’s delightful music career has never dated

GODMOTHERS OF POP

Kiki Dee – born Pauline Matthews, in Bradford – began

GODFATHERS OF POP

Kirk Brandon rose to fame as the frontman of post-punk

IAN PEEL’S A TO Z OF POP

RAP IS EVERYWHERE, IT’S UBIQUITOUS. BUT IT WASN’T ALWAYS THAT WAY. WHAT STARTED OFF AS THE SOUND OF THE STREETS IN THE UNITED STATES HAD TO WORK ITS WAY INTO THE UK PUBLIC’S CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGH SOME SURPRISING CHANNELS…

THIS MONTH IN… POP JULY 1985

IN OUR ROUND-UP OF JULY 1985’S BIGGEST MOMENTS IN POP, MADONNA STRIPS OFF, EURYTHMICS TEAM UP WITH STEVIE WONDER AND LIVE AID ROCKS LONDON AND PHILADELPHIA

POPARAZZI

READERS SHARE THEIR FAVOURITE PHOTOS AS THEY GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN PLANET POP

SUPER FAN

DEVOTED FANS SHOW US THEIR COLLECTIONS AND POP MEMORABILIA

TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 3 JULY 1988

BROS AND PHIL COLLINS GET REISSUED AND SABRINA BRINGS A BIT OF CLASS TO THE CHARTS…

CLASSIC POP MOMENT

No.54 DONNA SUMMER’S I FEEL LOVE IS RELEASED IN THE

SISTER ACT 2

RETURNING AFTER 26 YEARS, THE REUNION OF SHAKESPEARS SISTER IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO CHEER: THE STORY OF HOW SIOBHAN FAHEY AND MARCELLA DETROIT BECAME BITTER ENEMIES BY ACCIDENT AND WERE UNABLE TO FIND THE WAY BACK FOR SO, SO LONG. WHAT HAPPENED? THE PAIR EXPLAIN HOW AN UNINTENDED MEGA HIT, JUMPING THE FENCE AT GLASTONBURY, YOGA, THE KGB AND FRUSTRATIONS WITH BANANARAMA HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR A BRILLIANT NEW CHAPTER.

WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME

THE OLD ADAGE DECREES THAT THE BRIGHTEST STAR SHINES HALF AS LONG AND NO GROUP ENCAPSULATED THAT MORE THAN FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, WHO MADE MORE OF AN IMPACT IN 1984 THAN MOST GROUPS ACHIEVE IN A LIFETIME.

BELINDA CARLISLE

TAKING THE ROAD L ESS TRAVEL L ED THROUGH MELODI C PUNK, JUGGERNAUT POP SUCCESS AND AN LP INSPIRED BY KUNDAL INI YOGA…

SOUND + VISION

STEVE BARRON WAS ONE OF THE T ITANS OF THE 80s MUSIC VIDEO SCENE, A VISIONARY DIRECTOR WHO CAME TO DEFINE THE DECADE WITH A SERIES OF SCORCHINGLY ICONIC PROMOS. CLASSIC POP CATCHES UP WITH THE TRAI LBLAZER TO REFLECT ON HIS T IME WORKING WITH, AMONG OTHERS, MICHAEL JACKSON, ADAM ANT, A-HA, THE HUMAN LEAGUE, THE JAM AND DAVID BOWIE…

BOO’S THAT LADY

WITH HER EMMA PEEL-REFERENCING FELINE PERSONA, BETTY BOO SPEARHEADED U.K. HIP-HOP’S OVERGROUND ASSAULT ON THE CHARTS IN THE EARLY-90S. SHE MEETS STEVE O’BRIEN TO TALK ABOUT HER BEGINNINGS WITH U.S. RAP ROYALTY, BEING TAKEN UNDER MADONNA’S WING AND THE REAL REASONS WHY SHE JUMPED OFF THE POP MERRY-GO-ROUND.

TOP 2O ONES THAT GOT AWAY

WE LIFT THE LID ON AN ALTERNATE POP UNIVERSE TO TELL THE STORY OF HOW SOME OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF THE LAST 40 YEARS COULD HAVE TURNED OUT VERY DIFFERENTLY I F FATE HADN’T INTERVENED…

Orchestral Manoeuvres

ANDY WRIGHT S TARTED HIS CAREER AS A SYNTH AND DRUM MACHINE PROGRAMMER IN THE 80s, AND IS NOW BOTH SIMPLY RED AND SIMPLE MINDS’ REGULAR PRODUCER. T HERE WAS SIMPLY ONLY ONE PERSON, T HEN, TO HEL M THE RECENT 80s SYMPHONI C PROJECT, WHERE 15 ICONI C TRACKS FROM THE DECADE WERE REARRANGED WITH AN ORCHESTRAL BACKING. ANDY JONES MEETS THE MAN WITH A CLASSICAL TOUCH…

THE DALY RECORD

CHINA CRISIS’ LEAD SINGER GARY DALY HAS JUST RELEASED HIS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM, GONE FROM HERE, AND IT MIGHT JUST B E THE BEST THING YOU’ LL HEAR THIS YEAR. ANDY JONES TALKS TO GARY ABOUT RETURNING TO HIS SYNTH ROOTS AND ENGAGING WITH A NEW BAND OF MUSICIANS TO PRODUCE A PERFECT B LEND OF MELANCHOL IC, YET UPL I F TING POP…

SINGLES

MATTHEW RUDD THE HOST OF FORGOTTEN 80s ON ABSOLUTE

NEW RELEASES

DEFIANTLY ECCENTRIC IN PLACES, MADONNA’S LATEST – PARTIALLY

REISSUES

PURISTS MAY WHINE, BUT THIS LATEST KYLIE MINOGUE BEST

BOOK & TV REVIEWS

Not to be confused with those awful made-for-TV biopics

LIVE & EVENTS

THEY MAY BE TWO MEN DOWN FROM THEIR CHESTFLASHING HEYDAY