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…

THE SOUL OF THE BEATLES • SMOKEY ROBINSON LITTLE RICHARD OTIS REDDING RAY CHARLES PATTI LABELLE BOOKER T WILSON PICKETT ARTHUR ALEXANDER & MORE

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

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Smith And Legend • Cure cineaste and video director supreme Tim Pope tells all in new memoir I Shoot Rock Stars.

PREPARE FOR PRIMAL ‘65 BOWIE WITH THE SHEL TALMY RECORDINGS

GIMME FIVE… BAR SNACK SONGS

STEVEN WILSON GOES “FOLK HORROR” WITH ANDY PARTRIDGE AND DAVID TENNANT!

ALSO WORKING

Roger Taylor • Queen’s drummer talks saving the world, a superband with Mott and playing Cream with Bowie.

Julia Jacklin • The Blue Mountains’ indie-folk singer salutes Made The Harbor by Mountain Man (Partisan, 2010).

ATHENS MUSIC SCENE NEXUS WUXTRY RECORDS TURNS 50!

Anarchy In The US • Award-winning NYC punk chronicler Roberta Bayley comes to Abbey Road.

BRING IT IN WITH THIS IS LORELEI’S HEARTLAND INDIE-FOLK

WELCOME, SUDANESE ELECTRIC OUD SLINGER SULAFA ELYAS

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up, for the month’s live prog, jazz-rock and Zep covers.

BRITISH JAZZ’S FIRST LADY NORMA WINSTONE SINGS ON

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • As one-third of the Beastie Boys, he horrified the tabloids, delighted hip-hop purists, and navigated tragic losses. Now he’s made a solo LP, with his kids. What’s his mantra? “Let go of expectation,” says Mike D.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Sean Lennon on the Beasties’ über-tastemaker.

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

DIAMOND LIFE • Three the hard way - mixed by Tom Doyle.

Tell My Sister • In 1976, Kate & Anna McGarrigle’s self-titled debut album bewitched a coterie of connoisseurs. Fifty years on, it remains peerless. Sharply written, wondrously sung, veering between heartbreak and happiness - and arising from multiple conflicting visions for the pair’s music, and careers - it remains a rich tribute to two very different women who could sing as if they were one. “They blended like only sisters can,” discovers Grayson Haver Currin.

“There’s A Real Fullness, An Emotional Spectrum” • Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor on the wonders of Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

WHAT MAKES JOHNNY RUN? • Buoyed, not burdened, by The Smiths’ legacy, JOHNNY MARR forges on. A new solo album sees our hero on familiarly glistening ground, but don’t get him started on nostalgia, or imagine that being “sane and stoic” means the self-styled “Mancunian stoner guitarist” is impervious to the extraordinary. “Bucke’s Cosmic Consciousness changed my life,” he assures VICTORIA SEGAL.

HEEEEERE’S JOHNNY! • A half-dozen post-Smiths highlights from Marr

WISHBONE ASH PEAK WITH ARGUS • A prog band with twin lead guitarists, Wishbone Ash formed in London in 1969, touring the colleges and halls of Britain and the US before hitting big with 1972’s heroic classic, Argus. Peers of Tull, Genesis and Yes, fatal...