THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

David Fricke David, who interviews Graham Nash

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

ALPHA & OMEGA

Eccentric, theatrical, abstruse, GENESIS battled industry indifference, audience bafflement and internal rivalry to make music they variously describe as a Venn diagram and "a blancmange". As their final collaboration-1974's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway-enjoys a 50th anniversary reboot, the classic line-up of Gabriel, Hackett, Banks, Collins and Rutherford reconvene to reveal what really went on beneath the testicular costumes and public school reserve. "Secretly, we wanted to have hits," they tell MARK BLAKE.

APOCALYPSE IN 9/8

From Genesis To Revelation ★★ (Decca, 1969)

Theories, rants, etc.

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MOTHER COURAGE

Marianne Faithfull, pan-generational conduit for bohemianism in rock, fought sexism and addiction to be acknowledged as an artist in her own right. Sylvie Simmons pays tribute

TODD SINGS BURT? WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, RUNDGREN?

This guy’s in love with you: Todd Rundgren

ASSUME BRACE POSITIONS FOR HAWKWIND’S THIRTY-SEVENTH ALBUM

“We’re all back to normal… or at least

SCIENTISTS’ PUNK-BLUES HERO KIM SALMON COMES BACK SMOKING

A different kettle of fish: (above) chief Scientist

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

Nadia Reid The NZ singer-songwriter salutes Lucinda

ACE RECORDS HITS 50! BUT WHAT’S TOM WAITS GOT TO DO WITH IT?

“The whole concept was really not to release

LIEGE & LETHAL! JIM GHEDI BRINGS ANCIENT FOLK DOOM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

“I’m not one for being quaint and quiet.

RESURRECTED! SOUTHERN GOSPEL SENSATIONS ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS

The gospel according to…: The Caldwells (from left)

Under Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and other sobriquets, he’s alchemised folk, country and indie rock, dredging the dark depths of the soul. Yet with a 25th album afoot, MOJO finds him cheery. “There’s always something new to explore,” enthuses Will Oldham.

• Portrait by DAVID KASNIC David Kasnic,

SHOOT YOUR SHOT

Teenage camera prodigy DENNIS MORRIS’s pics of Bob Marley, PiL and more sear the page, half a century on. A sneak peek at his new book, Life + Music, hypnotises DANNY ECCLESTON.

JUST ASONG BEFORE I GO

Taking his songbook on the road at 83, GRAHAM NASH proves he was always much more than the “glue” in CSNY And as he reflects on his adventures with the Hollies, Beatles and Hendrix, and a reconciliation with David Crosby tragically thwarted by the Croz’s 2023 passing, he reveals an upside to his enforced solo path. “I have the freedom to do whatever I want,” he tells DAVID FRICKE

MOJO PRESENTS

The lovable sprite of the Pixies, The Breeders and The Amps, it’s taken KIM DEAL nearly 40 years of music making – plus rehab, bereavement and lockdown – to deliver a solo album. Now she’s touring it. What kept her? “It takes me a long time to like a song,” she tells GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN .

pale fire

SALIF KEÏTA BATTLED VIOLENT PREJUDICE AGAINST HIS PIGMENTATION TO BECOME AFRICA'S BIGGEST POP STAR, INSPIRED BY HIS NOBLE LINEAGE AND THE DEFIANT EXAMPLE OF FELA KUTI. IN 2018, HE LOOKED READY TO REST ON HIS CONSIDERABLE LAURELS, BUT A NEW ALBUM FINDS HIS GOLDEN VOICE STILL A SHINING BEACON. "A MUSICIAN IS NEVER IN RETIREMENT,"

AIN'T THAT SOMETHIN'

After the landmark coup of TELEVISION's Marquee Moon , the New York enigmas struggled and squabbled, yet made two more great albums and an until-now unheard fourth. To the end, the perverse perfectionism of the late Tom Verlaine was the group's creative dynamo, yet it drove bandmates to distraction. "Tom had a vision that was not really rock'n'roll," they tell DAVID FRICKE . "It was a challenge to be unique."

"TOM WANTED PERSIA TO BE HIS NEXT MARQUEE MOON"

TELEVISION'S UNRELEASED FOURTH ALBUM: EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED TO DAVID FRICKE

THE BRITISH INVASION PEAKS

Spearheaded by The Beatles’ success in early ’64, the USA’s love affair with Anglo groups cranked into overdrive, and by May 1965 eight of the Top 10 were by British acts. But what was the experience really like for The Zombies , The Dave Clark Five , Petula Clark and others as they crashed headlong into America? “They went crazy,” recall participants and witnesses 60 years on. “The screaming was like a jet plane taking off.”

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE MONTH' S BEST MUSIC

I hear a new world

The progfather of his generation ponders the enhanced perspectives of viewing the Earth from space. By Tom Doyle. Illustration by Laurie Greasley.

“Prog is kind of cool again.”

Steven Wilson speaks to Tom Doyle.

FILTER ALBUMS

Bob Mould Here We Go Crazy ★★★★

Heaven or Las Vegas

Big stars collide on life-affirming collaboration

Brian D’Addario

Till The Morning ★★★★ HEADSTACK. CD/DL/LP Elder Lemon Twig

Some Candi talking

Southern soul’s first lady goes back to the church on exultant 32nd album.

Hidden gem

Physical release for mysterious Canadian’s celebrated seventh album.

Deep Sea Diver

★★★★ Billboard Heart SUB POP. CD/DL/LP Former

Solitary man

Isbell releases his first-ever entirely solo album

FOLK

Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver ★★★★ Hinterland EAR

ALSO RELEASED

Jim Ghedi ★★★★ Wasteland BASIN ROCK. CD/DL/LP

EXPERIMENTAL

more eaze & claire rousay ★★★★ no

ALSO RELEASED

Bill Orcutt ★★★★ How To Rescue Things PALILALIA.

EXTENDED PLAY

Various Staying THE KEY to this mammoth comp

FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA

Dreadzone ★★★ Nine DUBWISER. CD/DL/LP The

Deliverance

Deliberately taking English punk rock to redneck country in America’s Deep South: a bad idea then, but priceless vérité now.

FILTER REISSUES

Steely Dan ★★★★ Katy Lied GEFFEN/UME. LP

P.P. Arnold

Survivor stories: P.P. Arnold’s voice is both

Kathy’s come home

The first ever album on Creed Taylor’s CTI label gets its first legitimate vinyl reissue since its 1970 release.

“Fuck folk, let’s swing!”

“Please welcome, Jacqui And The Egos!”

Various

Sensitive

Throb Rules

This month’s exhumed joy: New England psych blues rock with a nod to William Blake.

BURIED TREASURE

Ella Fitzgerald ★★★★ The Moment Of Truth: Ella

Various

Liverpool Sunset

Boz Scaggs

The master craftsman of blues and soul.

FILTER BOOKS

The Yardbirds: The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy

Major threat

A career-spanning, fan-documented live portrait of DC’s great DIY practitioners.

Rock Of Ages

The last member of The Band, Garth Hudson, left us on January 21. Friends and collaborators remember him as, “genius, eccentric, cool.”

Soul Man

Sam Moore, of 1960s R&B hitmakers Sam & Dave, left us on January 10.

Peter Yarrow

Folk singer-songwriter BORN 1938

REAL GONE

Elliot Ingber Alias Winged Eel Fingerling BORN

THEY ALSO SERVED

Courtesy Soulsville Foundation, John Atashian/Alamy Stock Photo, economic

MARCH 1986 …Bangles break big with Manic Monday

Manic episode: The Bangles (from left) Debbi Peterson,

The Croz is sent down

Long time gone?: David Crosby and guard at

SPUTNIK’S JIG IS UP

Rocket men: Sigue Sigue Sputnik (from left) Tony

ALSO ON!

THRASH BASH Metallica’s (above) 3 influential third

TOP TEN

EUROPE SINGLES MARCH 22 1 WHEN THE

AD ARCHIVE 1986

One of several anti-heroin campaigns of its time

Who was the littlest singer?

Let us answer your thorny rock’n’roll queries and shed light on musical mystery.

Ace Is The Place

Win! Three months’ worth of musical goodness from Ace Records!

Woody Woodmansey and David Bowie

It began with choices on the factory floor and ended with an infamous split on-stage at Hammersmith.