Mojo (UK)
DAVID BOWIE
Fifty years since the release of Station To Station, we investigate Bowie’s LA alienation and the torrid investiture of the Thin White Duke. Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar, George Murray and Roy Bittan add their insights.
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THE SMITHS
It’s time the tale were told! With Mike Joyce’s memoir a timely reminder of his group’s unique gifts and tragically curtailed span, MOJO digs into their story to find new angles, and an unexpected cameo by Mick Jagger.
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JOHN LENNON
When Beatle John and Yoko Ono moved to Manhattan in 1971 they were swept up in a whirlwind of radicalism. Out of it came fierce music, dark dangers, mad ideas and, ultimately, a soberer take on what it meant to be a political artist.
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BOB DYLAN
In the beginning… An eighteenth Bootleg Series release reveals the subtle metamorphosis of a protean wannabe into folk rock’s poetgenius: “It made everyone go, ‘Holy shit, this is a new thing.’”
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JONI MITCHELL,
“I woke up one day and I said, I can’t be having fun in this city. I gotta be supporting something, growing a garden.”
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BRIAN WILSON
The Beach Boys’ troubled genius has gone. But his music still resounds and his story astounds. MOJO pays tribute, with the help of Van Dyke Parks, Al Jardine, Lindsey Buckingham and more. “He didn’t like it if you were sharp or flat, that was...
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THE BEATLES
Sixty years ago, The Beatles ascended to a whole new level – turning on, tuning in and learning how to ask for Help! John Harris revisits 1965, to find out what John Riley, Frederick Wagg and Allen Ginsberg’s undies had to do with it.
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JEAN-JACQUES BURNEL
The Last Of The OG Stranglers on a lifetime of defying the odds and those who’d pigeonhole him. “I can still kick arse,” he insists. “I’m not decrepit yet.”
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CARGO COLLECTIVE
TUNDE ADEBIMPE THEE BLACK BOLTZ SUB POP LP / CD Tunde Adebimpe Sub Pop debut Thee Black Boltz is a powerful, inspired, and inspiring indie-rock album that grasps for small moments of joy amidst the dissonance and sadness of personal grief and social...
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LENNY WARONKER
The legendary A&R/producer/exec at the heart of Warners’ Golden Age with tales of Eddie Cochran, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, Prince and more.
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SALIF KEÏTA
Battling prejudice at home while achieving eminence abroad, Mali’s “Golden Voice” is not done fighting, thanks to some enduring advice from Fela Kuti.
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EDWYN COLLINS
THE RESTORATION OF EDWYN COLLINS, TO borrow the title of his wife Grace Maxwell’s book about his convalescence, continues apace. After this beloved post-punk pioneer suffered two devastating cerebral haemorrhages in February 2005, a life of any sort...
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THE ROLLING STONES
The madness and majesty of 1969, the most momentous year in the life of the ultimate rock’n’roll band, and how they plucked Let It Bleed from the chaos. Plus: the mastery and misfortune of Stones keysman Nicky Hopkins.
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“I want to walk through orchard fields and grab apples off of trees.”
A WHOLE NEW JACK WHITE,
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ROBERT SMITH, P12
“I used to write about stuff that I thought I understood. Now I know I understand it.”
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DAVID GILMOUR
The guitar and voice of Pink Floyd roars back, with an album mixing classic moves with startling innovations. On his mind: Rick Wright, false nostalgia, Covid survival, and that Roger tweet. “I have no regrets about it whatsoever.”
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BOB DYLAN
Think you have a bead on Dylan’s 1974 arena tour? A new box set of the landmark live shows, along with papers in Dylan’s Tulsa archive, shed new light. PLUS: a deep dive into the collaborative chemistry of Dylan and The Band.
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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
As he prepares to unleash a muscular, multi-hued new Bad Seeds LP, Cave talks exclusively to Dorian Lynskey of post-traumatic fame and the mysteries of songwriting: “There’s a lot of times I think, What the fuck am I doing?”
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STEVIE NICKS
The ultimate rock diva on Fleetwood Mac fame, solo stardom, the “lost years” of addiction and owning the stage, still, at 76. Plus! Mick Fleetwood offers a hymn to her… and a eulogy for his storied band?
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PAUL WELLER
The Jam man lets friends and fellow songwriters into the mix on his latest album. Meanwhile, he delivers classic tunes on his most energised tour in years. Not bad for 65. “It’s going to make me head explode, man.”
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