Mojo Magazine February 2021 Back Issue

JOHN LENNON
Forty years since Lennon’s murder, John Harris revisits a world in mourning, while Klaus Voormann, Earl Slick and MOJO’s writers remember the times
and the ways his greatness changed the world: “He was unique. He was a fucking anomaly.”

TONY IOMMI
Black Sabbath’s Riff Lord remembers high times, low frequencies and a ton of hiring and firing. Plus, the spooky “fifth member” of the classic Sabbath line-up: “The Over-Self”…

NANCY SINATRA
From a fabled stable came the personification of sassy mid-’60s sophisto-pop. “Everything was fresh,” she reminds Dave DiMartino. “Everything was approached from a new point of view.”

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
People Vultures! Android vomit! Turkish guitars! “Subverting the norm”! From the vast imagination of mainman Stu Mackenzie comes the freak-rock phenomenon of the 21st century.

SYNTH ’81 Jon Savage
selects the electronic anthems that turned music upside-down 40 years ago. Kraftwerk, Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche Mode, New Order, Human League, Pete Shelley and, hang on… Abba?!

FLOYD WARS!
2020 saw hostilities resume between the big beasts of Pink Floyd past and present. But when did their beefs begin, what lies behind them, and why can’t they all just get along?

THE STONE ROSES
In 1995, the implosion of Britain’s coolest band became public property, but Second Coming wasn’t even the end of it. As eyewitnesses recall: “It was a proper Spinal Tap moment.”