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‘LOST TRACK’ PREVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE OF A TINA CLASSIC

KRAFTWERK TO LEAD THE WAY AT NEW FESTIVAL

DURAN DURAN WILL RETURN TO EUROPE FOR SUMMER SHOWS

SAW awarded blue plaque at Hit Factory

DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATES LUTHER’S LIFE IN MUSIC

DEACON BLUE Q + A • THE SCOTTISH POP ROCKERS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR RUBY ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR WITH A NEW ALBUM PLUS ARENA AND THEATRE TOURS. CLASSIC POP TALKS TO FRONTMAN RICKY ROSS ABOUT THE SECRET OF HOW TO SURVIVE FOUR DECADES IN A BAND AND STILL BE HAVING FUN…

WATERBOYS RETELL DENNIS HOPPER’S LIFE STORY ON NEW ALBUM

BEARDED THEORY FESTIVAL RETURNS

1-HIT WONDER

CLIVE LANGER Q + A • THE PROLIFIC PRODUCER AND CLANG GROUP LEADER IS BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM IN TIME FOR HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY. HE TALKS TO CLASSIC POP ABOUT MADNESS, BOWIE, MORRISSEY AND ALCOHOLISM.

AN ARRESTING IMAGE IN THE POLICE’S HISTORY

IN-CIDER INFO FOR RATTLER FEST

LOST & FOUND

Ian Peel’s A to Z of POP • WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICHAEL JACKSON OF THE JACKSON 5 AND THE YORKSHIRE SINGER-SONGWRITER MICHAEL JACKSON? TOO MANY TO MENTION, BUT WITH ONE NOTABLE EXCEPTION: BOTH HAD DOPPELGÄNGER HITS.

This month in MARCH 1988 • THE JOSHUA TREE BAGS A GRAMMY, MOZ STRIKES OUT ON HIS OWN AND JACKO SPENDS BIG BUCKS ON A CALIFORNIAN RANCH

TOP 5 UK ALBUMS CHART • 6 MARCH 1988

“We’d play exactly what we wanted, how we wanted. That drove everyone around us nuts.” • Forty years ago, INXS were mostly considered eccentrics who needed to work out what they wanted to be. Then came fifth LP Listen Like Thieves, when suddenly the world took notice. Well, most of it. As that album gets a 40th anniversary deluxe reissue, Andrew Farriss and Kirk Pengilly tell Classic Pop of hanging out with Andy Warhol, surviving riots in Argentina and the poison darts of the British press.

Giles Martin Q&A

Hello Wembley! Part One

Kicking on

METAMATIC JOHN FOXX • THE FORMER ULTRAVOX FRONTMAN PRODUCED AN ELECTRONIC MASTERPIECE, IN SOME WAYS TOO AHEAD OF ITS TIME FOR ITS OWN GOOD. 45 YEARS ON, IT SOUNDS AS FRESH AND RELEVANT FOR OUR TIMES AS EVER.

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Confidence man • Despite a late-career flourish with Saucerful Of Secrets, a smash hit podcast and establishing himself as a solo artist, Gary Kemp wasn’t in a good place when he began his latest album. He tells Classic Pop how he arrived at a new destination with help from Richard Hawley – but he also reveals why Spandau Ballet’s unresolved tensions still need addressing.

CYNDI LAUPER • AS SHE WAVES GOODBYE TO UK AUDIENCES WITH A FAREWELL LIVE TOUR, WE LOOK BACK ON THE GENRE-HOPPING CAREER OF ONE OF MTV’S FIRST MEGASTARS WHO HAS SKIPPED FROM POP TO JAZZ, BLUES AND COUNTRY

THINKING OUT LOUD • HAVING EVOLVED FROM THE SLOGANEERING PROVOCATEURS OF THEIR EARLY YEARS INTO SPOKESMEN FOR REASONED DEBATE, MANIC STREET PREACHERS’ NEW ALBUM CRITICAL THINKING SEES THE TRIO YEARN FOR NUANCE. JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD TELLS US WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE CAUSE OF HIS ONLY CONSPIRACY THEORY – WHILE REVISITING HIS OWN FAVOURITES OF POP’S GREATEST DECADE.

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TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 14 MARCH 1987 • BOY GEORGE GOES SOLO, FREDDIE DROPS ONE OF HIS FINEST 45S AND SAW’S SOON-TO-BE SECOND NO.1

LET′S PUSH THINGS FORWARD • AS GODLEY & CREME’S BACK CATALOGUE IS COLLECTED INTO A CAREER-SPANNING BOXSET, KEVIN GODLEY TELLS CLASSIC POP WHY HE’S PROUD THE DUO...