MOJO

Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE…

MASTERS AND Servants • A DEPECHE MODE COMPANION

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…

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Theories, rants, etc.

A Salute To Kings • Rush’s Fifty Something Tour begins in Los Angeles, with thrills, deep cuts and tributes to fallen drummer Neil Peart.

IS THIS THE END FOR MEMPHIS‘s ARDENT STUDIOS?

GIMME FIVE… PAINTER SONGS

VAN DER GRAAF‘S PETER HAMMILL PREPARES LP 37

ALSO WORKING

Dave Hill • Slade‘s unsinkable Super Yob on knowing what he‘s doing, Oasis, and going solo.

Bill Orcutt • The free guitarist genuflects before The Jimi Hendrix Experience‘s Are You Experienced (Track, 1967).

SUPER-PRODUCER JAMES ELLIS FORD COMES BACK FIGHTING

SADDLE UP! FUZZY, TWANGY OUTRIDERS WESTSIDE COWBOY EARN THEIR SPURS

THE WOMACK SISTERS BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO A GREAT SOUL DYNASTY

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up: the month‘s space lullabies, art-pop and punk rackets.

BOSSA NOVA LEGEND JOYCE, STILL DOING IT HER WAY

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Silly or serious? Sober or psychedelic? Or all of the above? The ex-Soft Boy on the hard knocks that led to the palace of self-knowledge, in memoir and LP form. “I was never going to be a Sting-type figure,” concedes Robyn Hitchcock.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Gillian Welch on a poet of the invisible.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Boy wonder: Hitchcock down the years.

ROCKIN’ ROBYN • A trio of Hitchcock thrillers, by Victoria Segal.

THE KING OF PAIN • Pilloried by rock hacks, patronised by GENESIS, pranked by a Beatle: no amount of success could inure PHIL COLINS against the slings and arrows of showbiz. Then came the last decade and “everything that could go wrong, went wrong.” But with health issues stabilised and Hall of Fame laurels imminent, is he finally reaping the respect he deserves? “To many people, I’m just the ballad guy,” he tells MARK BLAKE.

ANOTHER SIDE OF PHIL COLLINS • Ten tracks that prove he’s not just “that ballad guy”

TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN • SIXTY YEARS AGO THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS’ DEBUT ALBUM MAPPED THE POTENTIAL OF PSYCHEDELIC ROCK TO BLOW MINDS, AND MAYBE EVEN RESHAPE HUMANITY. WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY MIGHT HAVE ACHIEVED HAD THEIR COMMITMENT TO PSYCHIC EXPLORATION NOT ENDED IN DISSOLUTION AND, EVENTUALLY, TRAGEDY. ”THE MOTIVATION WAS NOT TO GET HIGH,” A SURVIVOR TELLS GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. ”THE MOTIVATION WAS TO LEARN.”

“THEY CAME OUTTA POINTS BEYOND!” • BILLY GIBBONS OF TEXAN PSYCHSTERS MOVING SIDEWALKS (OH, AND ZZ TOP) ON THE TAO OF ROKY & CO.

MOJO PRESENTS • Still mourning the passing of R.E.M.? Join star actor MICHAEL SHANNON and indie-rock lifer JASON NARDUCY. Their solace: forming a supergroup to play the alt-legends’ albums in full. Their latest: Lifes Rich Pageant, and it’s coming to the UK. “No one can sound like R.E.M.,” they tell KEITH CAMERON, “but we try to capture the spirit.”

“THAT STORY’S OVER” • Peter Buck explains why an actual R.E.M. reunion ain’t gonna...