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WELCOME TO
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE VIDEO
EXCLUSIVE WAS SOMETHING WE ALL GOT
RATHER EXCITED ABOUT? WHETHER IT WAS
VIA MTV, TOP OF THE POPS, THE TUBE OR
THE CHART SHOW, I CAN STILL REMEMBER
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EXACTLY WHERE I WAS WHEN I SAW A
MUCH-HERALDED NEW
t’s a gross over-exaggeration to
PROMO FROM ONE OF
claim that the pop video as an
MY FAVOURITE BANDS
artform is dead, but the fact that
we’re much more likely to watch
OR ARTISTS FOR THE
promos on our lonesome via
VERY FIRST TIME.
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mobile phones, tablets or PCs
nowadays seems to have taken
something of a shine off them.
The gradual decline in the
importance of the single may
also be an explanation for why
videos now seem to rather slip out
into the media ether rather than
explode onto our TV screens as a
communal experience.
So this issue Paul Lester turns
back the clock to when MTV
was a major player in the global
consciousness of pop. It’s all there
in his superb cover feature from
the early fledgling days as the
channel forged its identity through
its numerous controversies and the
huge part it played in providing
a platform for some of the most
iconic promo videos of all time.
Elsewhere, our line-up is rather
female-centric this issue. We’ve
caught up with some of music’s
most iconic women to serve up
some revelatory interviews with
Wendy James, Sheena Easton and
singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.
We like to keep things diverse
at Classic Pop Towers, so as well
as putting Erasure’s synthpop
masterpiece
The Circus
under our
S U B S C R I B E
Classic Album microscope, we
also delve into a career-spanning
overview of Echo & the Bunnymen
in our Lowdown feature and dip
our toes into some late-80s chart
house music.
Special mention this issue must
also go to the storming return of
Depeche Mode. Could their new
album
Spirit
be the finest thing
they’ve put their name to in more
than 20 years? Turn to page 89
for our extended review of what
may well be the most politically
charged long-player from a major
band in 2017.
We’ve also got some very
special news of our own here
at
Classic Pop
magazine to
shout about – from our next
issue onwards we’ll be available
monthly. We’re also broadening
our remit to include 70s and 90s
chart music. For more details
about our Brave New World, turn
to page 16. Exciting times ahead,
eh? Enjoy the issue!
Steve Harnell, Editor
Follow me on Twitter:
@AnthemEditor
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fancy, playlists and reviews,
Classic Pop
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MTV: THE VIDEO REVOLUTION
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F E A T U R E S
MTV: WHEN POP VIDEOS
RULED THE WORLD
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Launched in 1981, the music TV channel
swiftly did the once-unimaginable – it
made pop’s moving image almost as
important as the sound through the
speakers. Paul Lester tells the story…
THE LOWDOWN:
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
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“Untouchable, celestial, beautiful
and real…” A guide to the output of
Liverpool’s purveyors of glorious gloom
SHEENA EASTON
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The Scottish chanteuse tells
Classic Pop
all
about the trail from Bellshill to Paisley Park
and Vegas and on to
42nd Street
CLASSIC ALBUM:
ERASURE –
THE CIRCUS
42
Framing politics, despair and self-affirmation
in a gloriously uplifting manner, the duo’s
second album had to succeed… and it did
SUZANNE VEGA
48
The
Luka
and
Tom’s Diner
songwriter
grants
Classic Pop
a personal tour
through her discography
STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN
52
Mark Elliott, writer of SAW guide
The
Ministry Of Pop,
debunks 9 myths about
the all-conquering production trio
MIKE + THE MECHANICS
58
Mike Rutherford explains how fresh
voices and collaborations injected life
into the least “side” of all side projects
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
It’s 30 years since
Jack Your Body
opened the floodgates for house music,
a musical force for the next decade
WENDY JAMES
As fiercely unapologetic as ever, Wendy
James – songwriter, singer, producer
and much more – is back with a bang
and an album of NYC-stained rock’n’roll
POP ART: PIERRE ET GILLES
The controversial French couple’s
fantastical iconography has graced
many a style-conscious popster’s output
RUBY TURNER
The journey from Culture Club to solo
success and an MBE: “Watford Gap was
my second home!” she assures us
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N E W S
POP-UP
All the latest rumours from The KLF,
Johnny Marr, Grace Jones, Vince Clarke,
Paul Young, Julian Cope, Lloyd Cole…
BURIED TREASURES
Another four rarities to seek out
LOST & FOUND
When Neil Young went electronic
CLIVE LANGER
The producer on Madness, Morrissey,
Kevin Rowland, Elvis Costello and
current outlet The Clang Group
MARK WHITE
Insights on the transition from Vice
Versa to ABC, from the induction of
Martin Fry to a parting of the ways
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R E G U L A R S
A TO Z OF POP
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Ian Peel’s alphabetical allusions
TRANSMISSION
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Our readers get in touch with their views
about all things on Planet Pop
LONG LIVE VINYL
84
Veritable giants enshrined in the grooves:
Carole King, Bon Jovi, Status Quo, Blondie,
Paul Weller, Madness and more
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R E V I E W S
The best releases and live concerts
SINGLES
Matthew Rudd of Forgotten 80s
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NEW RELEASES
89
Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Jamiroquai,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Right Said
Fred, Little Cub, Nelly Furtado, Ryan
Adams, Marti Pellow, Future Islands…
REISSUES
96
George Michael, Fleetwood Mac, Ian
Dury, Marc Almond, A Flock Of Seagulls
COMPILATIONS
101
100 Hits and Twelve Inch Eighties
BOOKS AND DVDS
104
The music of Prince, Blondie’s inside
story, and some classic Polaroids of
ambitious star-to-be Madonna…
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Pet Shop Boys, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alexander
O’Neal, De La Soul, Ladyhawke, Alpines…
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