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A-HA FRONTMAN DIAGNOSED WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE

SPANDAU BOXSET WILL REVISIT THE BAND’S EARLY YEARS

A comprehensive nine-disc boxset featuring Spandau Ballet’s first

ROBIN SCOTT TALKS ABOUT POP MUSIC

“I was trying to break ground I hadn’t

A time to Shiiine in Minehead

Shiiine On are celebrating their 10th birthday with

ALISON GOLDFRAPP

THE SINGER-SONGWRITER IS BACK WITH FLUX , HER SECOND SOLO ALBUM AND FOLLOW-UP TO 2023’S THE LOVE INVENTION . SHE TALKS TO CLASSIC POP ABOUT TOURING WITH SCISSOR SISTERS, STARTING HER OWN RECORD LABEL AND THE COST OF BEING FREE.

DAVID BYRNE REVEALS NEW SOLO ALBUM AND TOUR

Who Is The Sky? features guest vocals from

DURAN DURAN BRING GHOULISH DELIGHTS TO MANCHESTER

Duran Duran are bringing their Danse Macabre Halloween

BRIAN ENO AND BEATIE WOLFE PLAY THEIR CARDS RIGHT

© Cecily Eno B rian Eno and Beatie

Fratellis hit the road to celebrate debut LP

Scottish indie outfit The Fratellis have announced a

HEARTACHE AVENUE THE MAISONETTES

After the demise of prog-pop band City Boy

JUSTIN CURRIE

A PARKINSON’S DIAGNOSIS IS JUST ONE OF THE SLINGS AND ARROWS LIFE HAS HURLED AT THE DEL AMITRI FRONTMAN RECENTLY. BUT HE AND THE BAND ARE PLAYING ON – AND NOW HE’S WRITTEN ONE OF THE YEAR’S MOST EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC MEMOIRS.

LOSI & FOUND

FEARLESS EIGHTH WONDER By the time

GARY NUMAN A PERFECT CIRCLE: LIVE

BMG ★★★★★ © Joseph Cultice Bye CONCERT FOOTAGE

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP

FIS FOR… THE FORERUNNERS BEFORE WHAM! THERE

This month in POP AUGUST 1986

NUMAN’S FANS TAKE A STAND, MADONNA PREACHES TO THE CONVERTED AND SLIPPERY CUSTOMERS BON JOVI RELEASE THEIR BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM

Inter Stellar

After 35 years and a string of modernist masterpieces, Saint Etienne are signing off in style with their star-studded final album, International . “It was definitely emotional,” Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs tell Classic Pop .

TOP TEN

WEEK ENDING 9 AUGUST 1980

M NEW YORK-LONDON-PARIS-MUNICH

Recently rediscovered by the TikTok generation, 1979’s Pop Muzik was the effervescent highlight, a decade into his career, of Robin Scott’s debut album as M. With a new LP finally due this summer, it’s time to revisit New York-London-Paris-Munich.

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BiG beAT

THE HEAVY-HITTING DANCE MUSIC THAT WAS THE UBIQUITOUS SOUNDTRACK TO HALF OF THE 90s

POPARAZZI

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

YAZOO RELEASE UPSTAIRS AT ERIC’S

20 AUGUST 1982

BOXING CLEVER

BRYAN ADAMS IS BACK WITH A FEISTY NEW RECORD, ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES , SOUNDING LIKE A MAN REINVIGORATED. WE CATCH UP WITH HIM DURING HIS EUROPEAN ARENA TOUR TO DISCUSS THE “AWESOME“ MEL C, HANGING OUT WITH IGGY POP, AND REMAINING UNBEATEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

CLASSIC ALBUM HEAVEN ON EARTH BELINDA CARLISLE

THE SECOND ALBUM FROM THE GO-GO’S FRONTWOMAN-TURNED-SOLO STAR GAVE HER A HUGE NO.1 SINGLE THAT BECAME A TIMELESS ANTHEM. IT’S A CONFIDENT COMING-OF-AGE STATEMENT, WHICH ENSURED HER ASCENT FROM DIVE BAR TO DIVA.

L.A. Woman

Belinda Carlisle is revisiting the late-60s and early-70s pop that soundtracked her days growing up in the Golden State for a new 10-song covers album. It’s a record that conjures up “bittersweet memories of a California that doesn’t really exist anymore,” reflects the singer.

JOHNNY MARR

ONE OF THE UK’S MOST REVERED INSTRUMENTALISTS, THE GUITARIST HELPED PROPEL THE SMITHS TO INDIE ROCK GREATNESS BEFORE BUILDING A PROLIFIC COLLABORATIVE BODY OF WORK WHICH EVENTUALLY EVOLVED INTO AN INCREASINGLY AMBITIOUS SOLO CAREER

“I got to live out my dream. If you aim big enough, you can get there.”

Having enjoyed looking dapper during Spandau Ballet’s commercial heyday, it should be no surprise that Tony Hadley has a lifelong affiliation with big band music. He’s also got an affinity for singers who value style over technique. As he prepares to get classy on tour later this year, Hadley tells Classic Pop of the joys of being an optimist, the future of Spandau and a close encounter with Frank Sinatra…

WELCOME to the MACHINE

About to embark on a tour celebrating their commercial breakthrough with World Machine , 40 years on the album housing Something About You and Leaving Me Now still sounds a surefire smash. As Mark King and Mike Lindup explain, the opposite was the case. They reflect on anger over its early demos, tensions over going too commercial... and trying to balance hardcore fans’ desires with pleasing the other 2,995 people at their gigs.

TOP 20 POP CONCEPT ALBUMS

First conceived in the 1960s, concept albums changed the way we listened to music, and they continue to inspire new generations of artists, as our latest rundown confirms

REVIEWS

We review Alison Goldfrapp’s latest solo album, Flux,

THE HOT LIST

NEW RELEASES THAT NEED TO BE ON YOUR CULTURAL RADAR

MADONNA

VERONICA ELECTRONICA

D:REAM

DO IT ANYWAY

ALISON GOLDFRAPPP

FLUX

PAUL WELLER

FIND EL DORADO

KENNY THOMAS

UNSTOPPABLE

WET LEG

MOISTURIZER

BRIAN ENO & BEATIE WOLFE

LUMINAL/LATERAL

DOT ALLISON

SUBCONSCIOUSOLOGY

M/ROBIN SCOTT

THE FAQs OF LIFE

ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING

JUST FOR ONE DAY: THE LIVE AID MUSICAL

AFRICA EXPRESS

BAHIDORA

YUNGBLUD

IDOLS

CYPRESS HILL & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BLACK SUNDAY LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

KAE TEMPEST

SELF TITLED

GINA BIRCH

TROUBLE

BUSH

I BEAT LONELINESS

AMY MACDONALD

IS THIS WHAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR?

THE ROYSTON CLUB

SONGS FOR THE SPINE

MARK STEWART

THE FATEFUL SYMMETRY

M83

A NECESSARY ESCAPE

GWENNO

UTOPIA

SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS

FOLLOWING THEIR RECENT TOUR, THE REASON BRITAIN FELL UNDER THE SCISSORS’ FILTHY GORGEOUS SPELL GETS A BRILLIANT UPDATE. TIME TO TAKE YOUR MAMA OUT AGAIN...

THE SISTERS OF MERCY

FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS

OMD

JUNK CULTURE

DURAN DURAN

GREATEST

TALKING HEADS

MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS

RICHARD ASHCROFT

ALONE WITH EVERYBODY/HUMAN CONDITIONS/KEYS TO THE WORLD

VARIOUS ARTISTS

NOW 12” 80s: 1985 PART ONE/ NOW YEARBOOK ‘97

WANG CHUNG

CLEAR LIGHT, DARK MATTER

MONACO

USIC FOR PLEASURE/MONACO

JAMIROQUAI

DYNAMITE

KAISER CHIEFS

EMPLOYMENT 20

BRONSKI BEAT

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE AGE OF CONSENT REMIXES

EVERYTHING EVERYTHING

GET TO HEAVEN

BRIAN

UNDERSTOOD

GWEN McCRAE

ON MY WAY

NIALL HORAN

HEARTBREAK WEATHER

ROD STEWART

ULTIMATE HITS

FOREVER NOW FESTIVAL

NATIONAL BOWL, MILTON KEYNES

KYLIE MINOGUE

BP PULSE ARENA, BIRMINGHAM

SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR

SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM

JERRY HARRISON & ADRIAN BELEW: REMAIN IN LIGHT

WULFRUN HALL, WOLVERHAMPTON

THE TREMOLO DIARIES: LIFE ON THE ROAD AND OTHER DISEASES

JUSTIN CURRIE

OASIS: THEIR BREAKTHROUGH YEAR

PAUL SLATTERY

GIRL IN A BAND: TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

KIM GORDON