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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POP-UP RECORD-BREAKING ROBBIE IS NO.1

MORRISSEY WILL REUNITE WITH SIRE FOR NEW SOLO ALBUM

CHRIS REA • 4 MARCH 1951 – 22 DECEMBER 2025

The Appleton sisters fall back into pop

Q + A PHIL THORNALLEY • THE PRODUCER AND SONGWRITER-FOR-HIRE REVEALS ALL ABOUT HIS PUNK-POP ALBUM STACKED, HIS RECENT BRUSH WITH CANCER, PLUS SOME OF HIS MANY ADVENTURES IN SOUND, FEATURING THE CURE, PIXIE LOTT, BRYAN ADAMS AND NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

1-HIT WONDER

HEAVEN 17 CLASSICS REISSUED ON BLU-RAY

SLY DUNBAR • 10 MAY 1952 – 26 JANUARY 2026

LOST & FOUND

HARRY STYLES – NEW ALBUM AND ‘GLOBAL RESIDENCY’

TORI ENTERS THE DRAGON’S DEN

My POP Adjoa Andoh • THE BRIDGERTON ACTOR TELLS CLASSIC POP THAT, DESPITE HER LOVE OF DAVID BOWIE AND ELTON JOHN, SHE’LL ALWAYS BE A PUNK AT HEART…

STAR-STUDDED WAR CHILD ALBUM SEQUEL

PETE BURNS ‘LOST’ VERSE APPEARS ON BELVEDERE KANE LP

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP • THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF MUSIC FOR TV ADVERTS – IT CONNECTS TRACTORS AND CREAM CRACKERS TO A MEETING WITH TONY WILSON ABOUT A MYTHICAL TRACK BY NEW ORDER. AND TO A PLATINUM-LEVEL CONFESSION…

This month in POP MARCH 1990 • BEATS INTERNATIONAL GET DUBBY, DEPECHE MODE CAUSE A RIOT AND PHIL COLLINS CONTINUES TO SHOWS OFF HIS SERIOUS SIDE

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART • 31 MARCH 1990

“FAME MAKES YOU MORE ISOLATED, BUT I’D ALREADY CREATED MY OWN WORLD TO INHABIT” • A NEW BOXSET COMPILES THE DAYS WHEN SANANDA MAITREYA WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ARTISTS ON THE PLANET. IN A RARE INTERVIEW ABOUT THOSE TIMES, HE INVITES CLASSIC POP TO MILAN, TO DISCUSS BEING HYPNOTISED BY TREES, THE JOYS OF FLOATING… AND STRIKING OUT WITH SADE. “THOSE SONGS WERE DESTINY CALLING,” HE TELLS US.

THE HARDLINE ACCORDING TO MICHAEL

A VARIETY OF MENUS

A NOD TO HERO ROD

CLASSIC ALBUM KISSING TO BE CLEVER CULTURE CLUB • THE LONDON GROUP’S 1982 DEBUT WAS A COLOURFUL CLASH OF SOUNDS AND CULTURES. PROMOTING A MESSAGE OF UNITY – A CLUB WHERE ANYONE COULD FIT IN – IT MADE THEM INTERNATIONAL STARS, ACHIEVING A STATESIDE CHART MILESTONE LAST ENJOYED BY THE BEATLES.

THE PLAYERS

THE SONGS

THE VIDEOS

WIN THE ULTIMATE VIP WEEKEND AT RETROCON UK • THREE DECADES – AND ONE LEGENDARY PARTY…

ONE MOORE TIME • AS S’EXPRESS GET THE LONG OVERDUE BOXSET TREATMENT WITH HEY MUSIC LOVER!, MARK MOORE TELLS CLASSIC POP HOW HE TOOK ACID HOUSE OUT OF THE CLUBS AND INTO BRITAIN’S LIVING ROOMS

JOIN OUR CLUB

NEW PERSPECTIVES

DEACON BLUE • FRONTED BY THE GRAVELLY VOICE OF RICKY ROSS, THE BAND BECAME GLASWEGIAN HEROES IN THE LATE 80S WITH A BLEND OF BLUE-EYED SOUL, ANTHEMIC POP-ROCK AND INCISIVE SOCIAL COMMENTARY BEFORE ENJOYING A TRIUMPHANT SECOND WIND

THE FIVE ERAS OF ROBBIE WILLIAMS • AS HE REVISITS THE HEADY DAYS OF BRITPOP AND “A GOLDEN AGE FOR BRITISH MUSIC” WITH HIS LATEST NO.1 ALBUM, WE TAKE A LOOK AT SOME LANDMARK CHAPTERS ACROSS THE SINGER-SONGWRITER’S CAREER

GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS

BAND OF BROTHERS

TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 26 MARCH 1988 • KYLIE IS SANDWICHED...