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Tina Turner’s 20 million-selling Private Dancer album is

KRAFTWERK TO LEAD THE WAY AT NEW FESTIVAL

Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter A new one-day festival set

DURAN DUR AN WILL RETURN TO EUROPE FOR SUMMER SHOWS

Duran Duran return from live duty in the

SAW awarded blue plaque at Hit Factory

Stock Aitken Waterman have been honoured with a

DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATES LUTHER’S LIFE IN MUSIC

A new feature-length Luther Vandross documentary, Luther:

DE ACON BLUE

THE SCOTTISH POP ROCKERS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR RUBY ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR WITH A NEW ALBUM PLUS ARENA AND THEATRE TOURS. CLASSIC POP TALKS TO FRONTMAN RICKY ROSS ABOUT THE SECRET OF HOW TO SURVIVE FOUR DECADES IN A BAND AND STILL BE HAVING FUN...

WATERBOYS RETELL DENNIS HOPPER’S LIFE STORY ON NEW ALBUM

“His life was the story of our times“

CLIVE LANGER

THE PROLIFIC PRODUCER AND CLANG GROUP LEADER IS BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM IN TIME FOR HIS 70 TH BIRTHDAY. HE TALKS TO CLASSIC POP ABOUT MADNESS, BOWIE, MORRISSEY AND ALCOHOLISM.

AN ARRESTING IM AGE IN THE POLICE’S HISTORY

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Ian Peel’s Ato Zof POP

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICHAEL JACKSON OF THE JACKSON 5 AND THE YORKSHIRE SINGER-SONGWRITER MICHAEL JACKSON? TOO MANY TO MENTION, BUT WITH ONE NOTABLE EXCEPTION: BOTH HAD DOPPELGÄNGER HITS

This month in POP MARCH 1988

THE JOSHUA TREE BAGS A GRAMMY, MOZ STRIKES OUT ON HIS OWN AND JACKO SPENDS BIG BUCKS ON A CALIFORNIAN RANCH

TOP 10

WEEK ENDING 14 MARCH 1987

PRIVATE REVOLUTION WORLD PARTY

BY THE TIME HE PASSED, KARL WALLINGER HAD BEEN ACCLAIMED AS AN EXCEPTIONALLY GIFTED SONGWRITER STEEPED IN THE CLASSICS. BUT, THOUGH HIS DEBUT ALBUM AS WORLD PARTY WAS ECLIPSED BY LATER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PRIVATE REVOLUTION SHOWS HE WAS ALSO ADMIRABLY FORWARD-THINKING.

POPARAZZI

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

POPSCENE

THE GROOVE-DRIVEN GENRE THAT’S BURSTING WITH SOULFUL RHYTHMS AND SLICK, INFECTIOUS DANCE BEATS

CLASSIC POP MOMENTS

RUN-DMC RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM 27 M ARCH

“We’d play exactly what we wanted, how we wanted. That drove everyone around us nuts.”

Forty years ago, INXS were mostly considered eccentrics who needed to work out what they wanted to be. Then came fifth LP Listen Like Thieves , when suddenly the world took notice. Well, most of it. As that album gets a 40th anniversary deluxe reissue, Andrew Farriss and Kirk Pengilly tell Classic Pop of hanging out with Andy Warhol, surviving riots in Argentina and the poison darts of the British press.

METAMATIC JOHN FOXX

THE FORMER ULTRAVOX FRONTMAN PRODUCED AN ELECTRONIC MASTERPIECE, IN SOME WAYS TOO AHEAD OF ITS TIME FOR ITS OWN GOOD. 45 YEARS ON, IT SOUNDS AS FRESH AND RELEVANT FOR OUR TIMES AS EVER.

Confidence man

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 album. He tells Classic Pop how he arrived at a new destination with help from Richard Hawley – but he also reveals why Spandau Ballet’s unresolved tensions still need addressing.

CYNDI L AUPER

AS SHE WAVES GOODBYE TO UK AUDIENCES WITH A FAREWELL LIVE TOUR, WE LOOK BACK ON THE GENRE-HOPPING CAREER OF ONE OF MTV’S FIRST MEGASTARS WHO HAS SKIPPED FROM POP TO JAZZ, BLUES AND COUNTRY

THINKING OUT LOUD

HAVING EVOLVED FROM THE SLOGANEERING PROVOCATEURS OF THEIR EARLY YEARS INTO SPOKESMEN FOR REASONED DEBATE, MANIC STREET PREACHERS’ NEW ALBUM CRITICAL THINKING SEES THE TRIO YEARN FOR NUANCE. JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD TELLS US WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE CAUSE OF HIS ONLY CONSPIRACY THEORY – WHILE REVISITING HIS OWN FAVOURITES OF POP’S GREATEST DECADE.

LET′S PUSH THINGS FORWARD

AS GODLEY & CREME’S BACK CATALOGUE IS COLLECTED INTO A CAREER-SPANNING BOXSET, KEVIN GODLEY TELLS CLASSIC POP WHY HE’S PROUD THE DUO NEVER LACKED THE COURAGE TO GO THEIR OWN WAY

TOP 20 LIVE ALBUMS

FOR FANS UNABLE TO SECURE A TICKET FOR THE HOT TEST SEAT IN TOWN, THE LIVE ALBUM WAS OFTEN THE NEXT BEST THING

SHAKING UP THE WORLD

Youthquake: “A significant cultural, political or social change that occurs because of the actions or influence of young people”, and ‘word of the year’ according to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017. However, more importantly, it was Dead Or Alive’s second studio album. As the LP gets a 40th anniversary deluxe reissue, we go behind the scenes with producer Pete Waterman

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