Classic Pop April 2019

W hat is a percapella exactly? The highlight of many a late 80s, early 90s 12" B-side, it is, as you can imagine, a stripped-dow ...

With his Purple Rain Tour winding towards its end, Prince announces that he is about to stop live performances completely. THIS ...

Freddie Mercury releases his fi rst solo album, Mr Bad Guy, which will peak at No.6 in the UK. Life In A Northern Town by The Dr ...

BANANARAMA NORMAL SERVICE HAS BEEN RESUMED. AFTER THEIR ONE-TIME ONLY REUNION TOUR WITH SIOBHAN FAHEY, BANANARAMA ARE BACK WITH ...

© Penelope Campbell and Will Marsh Back to the core duo – Bananarama’s Keren Woodward (left) and Sara Dallin (right) B ananarama ...

They’ve already moved on from the almost overwhelming response to their Original Line Up Tour, polishing off new knowingly-title ...

“That said, I quite enjoy winning people over at festivals, because we always manage to do it. What we get right across the boar ...

“WE HAD A GREAT TIME, WE LOVE SIOBHAN TO DEATH AND IT WAS WHAT IT WAS. A LOT OF GROUPS DO THE ‘LAST EVER TOUR’ THING BUT THAT’S ...

Bananarama have been a duo for 28 years of their 38-year existence © Penelope Campbell and Will Marsh our school holidays but yo ...

these musicians. We used to go to a club called Music Machine, which is now KOKO; we just met loads of people through Paul. Siob ...

● In Stereo is released by In Synk on 19 April and reviewed on page 81. For UK tour dates, visit bananarama.co.uk with the same ...

ALBUM CLASSIC THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO, TALK TALK’S FOURTH LP WAS SPURNED UPON ITS RELEASE, LASTED ONLY FIVE WEEKS IN THE UK CHARTS ...

Getty Images Getty Images F or most musicians, the fi rst taste of success can be intoxicating – a heady incentive to pursue its ...

THE SONGS (^1) THE RAINBOW Opening with muffl ed strings and muted brass, The Rainbow sets out Talk Talk’s stall defi antly, its ...

“The band had made good money from The Colour Of Spring and touring, and wanted to experiment. It was purely ‘art’. No one told ...

ago. If we’d delivered this album to the record label 20 years ago, they wouldn’t have batted an eyelid.” Inevitably, the band’s ...

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

SQUEEZE © Rob O’Connor ...

SONG BY SONG SQUEEZE’S NEW TOUR, THE DIFFORD AND TILBROOK SONGBOOK 2019, AIMS TO GO DEEP. AS WELL AS THEIR CLASSICS, CHRIS DIFFO ...

TAKE ME I’M YOURS (FROM SQUEEZE, 1978) Squeeze’s fi rst hit, Take Me I’m Yours reached No.19 fi ve years after Glenn and Chris m ...