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…

CAN & IRMIN SCHMIDT »REPLAY« 1968-2026 15 GEMS AND RARITIES COMPILED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MOJO

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

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Theories, rants, etc.

“I will never play with them again!” • Joy Division/New Order enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! But will it be alright on the night?

NEW DOCUMENTARY STILL BURNING: THE FINAL WORD ON NORTHERN SOUL?

GIMME FIVE… SONGS ABOUT BELLS

14 YEARS ON FROM SCHISM, GANG OF FOUR COME BACK ANGRY

ALSO WORKING

Peter Frampton • The Herd, Humble Pie and solo star talks Bowie, fatal fame and satin trousers.

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

YES RETURN WITH AURORA AND LOOK TO LIFE BEYOND STEVE

POWERPOP VIPs SHOES - AND SOLE SURVIVOR GARY KLEBE!

May 17 ’66, Revisited • 60 years on from Bob Dylan being called a Judas, unseen images from the night…

MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH — GETDOWN SERVICES ARE THE DEADPAN ANTIDOTE

TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE! THE HOMEBAKED, ROOTSY ALT-ROCK OF MILDRED

MOJO PLAYLIST • Attention! For the month’s analogtronica, blues and Bond-drama.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Can’s classical gasser was the conductor of his now-late colleagues’ crazy genius. Crafting solo works embedding in nature, he curates their legacy with pride and sadness. “Can is in me. I’m a part of it,” says Irmin Schmidt.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Thurston Moore bows before Can’s maestro.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Oh yes he Can: Schmidt down the years.

HURRICANE SCHMIDT • Irmin intensified, selected by Ian Harrison.

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED! • In 1970 DON CORNELIVS had a radical idea: black people on TV having fun, dancing to black music. He called it SOUL TRAIN. Twenty years ago the show aired for the last time, but not before it had shaken American pop culture down to the ground. In this extract from his new book about the funk era, LLOYD BRRDLEY unpicks “the hippest trip in America”, and reveals its unlikely fellow-travellers…

NON-STOP ECSTRTIC DRNCINS • Five classic Soul Train moments, compiled by Funky CLIVE PRIOR.

SO LONG, LONELY AVENUE • Burdened by laurels for her self-titled debut, RICKIE LEE JONES found herself in a dark alley with some dubious companions. Out of that time emerged the complex, seductive songs of Pirates. Forty-five years on, as she sets sail for these shores once more, she unfurls the Jolly Roger and prepares to give no quarter. “For me, the second record was it”, she tells VICTORIA SEGAL. “If I went down, I was going to go down big.”

“I’M ON TOUR ALL THE TIME” • Rickie Lee Jones looks forward to her UK shows and a new album, she tells VICTORIA SEGAL, that’s “driven by spirit”.

RUNNING OUT OF TIME • THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP were a firing R&B group with a unique secret weapon - a schoolboy wizard who could sing like “Ray Charles on helium”. But as they rapidly graduated from the Birmingham pub circuit to major pop success, the race was already on...