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When Blur won four trophies at the BRIT Awards on 20 February 1995, the band changed forever. Britpop, or whatever you want to call that scene, had entered the mainstream. After the success of Parklif

We all laughed at Alan Partridge when he said his favourite Beatles album was “The Best Of The Beatles”. But might he secretly have had a point? In the streaming age, the hits compilation has become a

SPARKS AND SUEDE KEEP IT SPIKY, BRYAN FERRY RELAXES INTO A NEW ERA AND ANDY BELL SERVES UP A MASTERCLASS IN HOOK-LADEN POP 01 SPARKS MAD! (TRANSGRESSIVE) Sparks may have landed on a new record label i

If you want to know just how prolific Andy Bell and his producer Dave Audé were in making Mr Erasure’s first pop solo album since 2010’s Non-Stop in the shape of Ten Crowns, head to the bonus songs on

Classic Pop’s team will only get one chance to celebrate our 100th issue, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight some pivotal moments that have got us to this point. Many of you have be

Having waited over 40 years to allow a glimpse into her vault, a sort-of expanded version of 1994’s Bedtime Stories arrives just four months after Ray Of Light’s messy offcuts collection, Veronica Ele