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CLASSIC POP
JUN/JUL 2016
PRINCE TRIBUTE • DEXYS • GARY BARLOW AND FRIENDS • JOHN FOXX • BANANARAMA • GRACE JONES • MADONNA • BEN WATT AND... TIMBUK3!
GRACE
DEXYS JONES
E XC LUS I V E!
Inside Story
The making
of Madonna’s
True Blue
Down and
out with
BANANARAMA
JOHN FOXX
INTERVIEWED
The man from the city
ART DIRECT
Scott King’s portfolio
Gary Barlow
Thomas Dolby
Andy McCluskey
Steve Jansen
Tony Hadley
Peter Cox
Ben Watt
PURPLE
REIGN
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CLASSIC POP
JUN/JUL 16
ISSUE 23
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21 APRIL 2016
Complete Music: New Order
A brand new edition of the album Music Complete
Extended mixes of each track from the original album
Even more style
Even more substance
Released 13th May
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WELCOME TO
ONE THING I’VE NOTICED... IT’S NOT
THAT PRINCE WAS PROLIFIC (IF ANYTHING
HE WAS HYPER-PROLIFIC: 39 ALBUM
RELEASES FROM 1978 TO 2015). IT’S
THAT, IN ADDITION TO HIS OWN CAREER
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AS A PERFORMER, HE’S BEEN ALMOST
INVISIBLY UBIQUITOUS
o while we look back at
ACROSS THE LAST
Prince’s greatest albums
FIVE DECADES:
and singles, I’m revelling
in everything else: the
DANCING AROUND
songs he donated to other artists
BEHIND THE SCENES
which became massive, those
SONGWRITING,
that he wrote for protégés (does
anyone even have protégés any
CO-WRITING, TALENT-
more?), and guest spots, from Kate
SCOUTING, GUEST
Bush’s
Why Should I Love You
to
STARRING, DIRECTING
Madonna’s
Love Song.
The highlights from this Now
AND ORCHESTRATING
That’s What I Call Prince playlist
THE TEMPLATE OF POP
would include the songs which
AS WE KNOW IT.
became hits for other artists, kick-
S
starting their careers. Like Sinéad
O’Connor’s
Nothing Compares 2
U,
The Bangles’
Manic Monday
and Chaka Khan’s
I Feel For You.
Then there were the songs that
reinvented careers. Like
Love...
Thy Will Be Done
for Martika,
and my personal favourite,
Born
To B.R.E.E.D.
for Monie Love. The
biggest reinvention of all was
Sheena Easton’s
Sugar Walls,
taking her from Scottish sweetheart
to feeling the wrath of Jimmy
Swaggart and the American
Parental Advisory brigade.
There was a time when an
artist might have been mocked,
or at least pigeon-holed, for
being a Prince protégé. But who
else A&R’d such a long line of
talent and brought them to public
attention? Wendy & Lisa, Sheila E.,
Tevin Campbell and Taja Sevelle,
groups like Vanity 6/Apollonia 6,
The Family, Madhouse, Milenia,
The Revolution and 3RDEYEGIRL.
Of all of these I’ll keep going back
to Wendy & Lisa’s
Lolly Lolly
or
Ingrid Chavez’s
May 19 1992
as
much as I will
1999
or
Lovesexy.
Track back at random 10-year
intervals and you can hear pop
music developing, and hear
Prince’s constant influence. 1982
– The Pointer Sisters keep things
fresh for their ninth album with a
cover of
I Feel For You
(two years
before Chaka’s version). 1992
– Arrested Development sample
Alphabet Street
(without consent)
on
Tennessee.
2002 – Beyoncé
riffs off
If I Was Your Girlfriend
for her vocal on Jay-Z’s
‘03
Bonnie And Clyde.
2012 – Jessie
Ware takes the drum loop from
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
when she writes her debut single,
Running.
All of which guarantees
that in 2022, 2032 and beyond,
there’ll be big hit records
referencing, sampling, riffing – but
all audibly inspired – by Prince.
Ian Peel, Editor-At-Large
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him create the soundtrack to new film
Eddie The Eagle –
surely one of their
strangest undertakings to date…
JOHN FOXX
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The original lead singer for Ultravox and later
an electronic music maverick, Foxx found
chart success and picked up a cult following
with his pioneering techniques. Now, he
celebrates the last 20 years with a new
compilation. We get the inside story
POP ART: SCOTT KING
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He was art director for
i-D
magazine and
Sleazenation,
he’s exhibited his work at the
Saatchi gallery and now he’s a professor
at University of the Arts London, but our
interest lies in his powerful sleeve designs for
Pet Shop Boys, Morrissey and many more
BANANARAMA
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‘Showbiz journalist’ Paul Simper has hung
out with many of the stars celebrated in these
pages. Here is his account of time spent in the
city and the country with Bananarama from
his new book
Just Got Lucky
THE LOWDOWN
68
A detailed look at the best offerings
from Grace Jones’ career
CLASSIC ALBUM
74
We relive the making of
True Blue,
a love
letter to Madonna’s new hubby, actor Sean
Penn, and her most successful album
BEN WATT
80
With Everything But The Girl on near-
permanent hiatus, Watt has laid down a
sumptuous new solo album
Follow us
F E A T U R E S
PRINCE 1958-2016
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Yet another musical genius lost to the world
in 2016. Prince was more than just a pop star:
he was a master songsmith, supplying hits
for many others beside himself, an incredible
vocalist and musician and – of course – a
flamboyant and unique performer…
DEXYS
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Classic Pop
takes a pew with Dexys’
well-heeled spokesman Kevin Rowland
and his comrade Sean Read to discuss
their recent change in direction and to
mull over the meaning of it all
GARY BARLOW & FRIENDS
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We talk to the Take That man and a
handful of the Eighties stars that helped
4
08
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N E W S
POP-UP
Pet Shop Boys open a pop-up shop,
ABC revisit a masterpiece, Jean-Michel
Jarre gathers the stars, The Go-Go’s bid
adieu, Annie Lennox is honoured, and
Morrissey gets mouthy…
BURIED TREASURES
The Smiths’ colourful German vinyl,
a Jean-Michel Jarre box set, a rare
Kraftwerk six-track, and The Durutti
Column’s sandpaper sleeve
RADAR
Releases on the horizon
THOMAS DOLBY
The electronic mastermind and
university professor discusses his work
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R E G U L A R S
28
STEVE JANSEN
Ex-Japan drummer on dressing up in
South London, Mick Karn, and his new
solo LP
Tender Extinction
R E V I E W S
30
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TRANSMISSION
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Tributes to Prince
LONG LIVE VINYL
86
Thompson Twins’ red vinyl reissues,
Associates’
Sulk
makes a return to wax, plus
Prince, Bowie, Frankie Goes To Hollywood,
Air, Garbage, Bernard Herrmann and more
COMPETITIONS
104
Grace Jones’ new 4LP
Warm
Leatherette
box set, Ali Campbell box
sets, Ex-Bucks Fizz OBF albums and five
very different Eighties compilations…
The best releases and live concerts
SINGLES
90
The Blow Monkeys’ Dr Robert listens in
NEW RELEASES
91
ABC, Marsheaux, Dinner, Starless, Dexys,
Steve Jansen, Kristin Kontrol, Katy B…
REISSUES
98
Associates, Paul McCartney, Air, The Cars,
The Go-Go’s, Breathe, Robert Palmer…
COMPILATIONS
102
Indie, psychedelia, D.I.Y. and duets!
BOOKS AND DVDS
107
Four excellent new publications
LIVE
110
A-ha, Gary Barlow, Eddie Reader, The
Stranglers, The Real Thing…
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