Classic Pop April 2019

SQUEEZE STRANGER THAN THE STRANGER ON THE SHORE (FROM SWEETS FROM A STRANGER, 1982) Chosen because we wanted to discuss why some ...

SQUEEZE HAPPY DAYS (FROM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE, 2015) Squeeze’s fi rst album of new material since reforming was the soundtrack to ...

© Rob O’Connor ON TOUR THE FUTURE... Are our heroes working on new Difford/Tilbrook classics? Chris: “I don’t feel the need to w ...

WE PROFILE SUPERFANS EVERY MONTH IN CLASSIC POP. BUT WHAT EXACTLY MAKES THEM TICK? WE GO BEHIND THE PHENOMENON AND MEET THOSE WH ...

SUPERFANS Numan clearly does not take his fans, including wife Gemma, for granted. “I’m not too keen on talking about my fanbase ...

SUPERFANS It’s a notion that frequently comes up in conversations with fans. Samantha Hand, from Reading, was a Suede fan at uni ...

FOLLOWERS OF TAKE THAT, SUEDE, THE MANICS AND NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK TELL CLASSIC POP HOW THEY WENT FROM FANS TO SUPERFANS Daniel ...

SUPERFANS difference to being a fan,” Lisa explains. “You can now interact with your favourite band members very easily no matte ...

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D eacon Blue’s name may derive from the title of a track featured on Steely Dan’s classic Aja album, but that’s the extent of th ...

RAINTOWN 1987 Bad work and bad weather Pop as social commentary, with Deacon Blue refl ecting the struggles of ordinary folk in ...

●Away from Deacon Blue, Ricky Ross has written songs for, or with, James Blunt, Ronan Keating and Jamie Cullum. He also anchors ...

THE MUST-WATCH VIDEOS “A forbidding blood red skyline, the guts of an elevator shaft, a passenger plane speeding low overhead li ...

NOT ALL GREAT SINGLES BECOME CHART-CONQUERING HITS. MANY SOMEHOW ELUDE THE TOP 40, HOVERING UNCHERISHED JUST OUTSIDE IT, BEYOND ...

GREATEST MISSES TOP 40 36 ORDINARY ANGEL HUE AND CRY The storytelling sophisti-pop of Scottish brothers Greg and Pat Kane worked ...

TOP 40 GREATEST MISSES 3O MAYOR OF SIMPLETON XTC An elaborate nod to the rise of jangle pop in the late 80s from a band who embr ...

24 LOVE IS THE SEVENTH WAVE STING Sting’s solo career started sluggishly, with only two of fi ve singles from his debut album Th ...

(^14) I WOULD DIE 4 U PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION While four other tracks from Prince’s 1984 Purple Rain album made the Top 10, th ...

O8 BABY CAN I HOLD YOU TRACY CHAPMAN To commend Boyzone for services to music is not a role anyone will accept enthusiastically, ...

You Take Me Up THOMPSON TWINS (ARISTA)Despite being Thompson Twins’ biggest chart hit (it made No.2 and spent a total of 11 week ...