MOJO PRESENTS Break It Up!

NEW YORK ART, ROCK, POETRY AND NOISE 1956-2022

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ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

HOW TO BUY

Ravi Shankar

REAL GONE

Feed the fire: Vangelis – head man of

TIME MACHINE

JULY 1993 …Rage Against The Machine’s naked protest

MOJO COMPETITION

DIY Disco

HELLO GOODBYE

Steve Howe and Yes

Back On Main St.

Unearthed! Norman Seeff’s unseen Exile… images. Plus, the Stones’ Sixty Tour comes home.

THE BOWIE FILM VAULT OPENS IN BRETT MORGEN’S REVELATORY MOONAGE DAYDREAM!

Daydream believer: Bowie gets a lift, 1973 director

ROBYN HITCHCOCK PLAYS WITH SOFT BOYS, JOHNNY MARR, SEAN ONO LENNON AND MORE, FOR LP 22!

Moggy notion: Hitchcock and Telecaster at home in

STEVE EARLE

The Hardcore Troubadour talks Jerry Jeff Walker, politics and staying sober.

P.P. Arnold

The soul powerhouse salutes Aretha Franklin’s Respect (Atlantic, 1967).

AS A.I. CLEANS UP ‘BROTHER’ JACK McDUFF LIVE IN ’82, WHERE NEXT FOR DIGITAL AUDIO RESTORATION?

W HEN JAZZ organ freak Scott Hawthorn watched

AVANT-GUITAR SEER OREN AMBARCHI FINDS NEW SENSATIONS VIA IMPOSSIBLE METHODS

Easy, tiger!: Oren Ambarchi throws himself out of

BABY I’M A STAR! THE EMANCIPATED FUTURE-BLUES OF FANTASTIC NEGRITO

“I’m an artist, not a musician”: Fantastic Negrito

FROM TEEN-POP BAPTISM BY FIRE, TO SUMMERISLE REBIRTH, KATY J PEARSON RETURNS STRONGER

EARLIER THIS summer, Katy J Pearson played the

MOJO PLAYLIST

Giovanni Duca Tune in! For the best in

FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, MANY OF YOU WILL HAVE FELT PART OF A MOJO CLUB.

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The Master Drummer to Dylan, Lennon, Neil, Lana Del Rey and dozens more has come through overdoses and epiphanies to be the heartbeat of the greatest rock and pop. His secret? “It’s allowing the music to blossom,” says Jim Keltner.

Portrait by ROGER KISBY "THE MOST IMPORTANT THING

THE ALCHEMISTS

Forty years ago, a band of Glaswegian art-rock misfits located the formula for a spectacular transformation. From base metals, SIMPLE MINDS alchemized New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), an album which would change their lives for ever. As they prepare to reconstruct the album live in Edinburgh, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and their former bandmates tell KEITH CAMERON the whole miraculous tale, from psychedelic experiences in the Scottish countryside, to redneck run-ins in Saskatoon... “Worldwide on the widest screen!”

MANFRED MANN DOO-WAH-DIDDY THE SIXTIES!

Formed as the British Blues boomed in ’62, the Anglo-South African R&B hit squad took the decade by the horns, wailing the theme to Ready Steady Go!, being the first British Invasion group to score a US Number 1 and forging ahead despite the ’66 departure of vocalist Paul Jones. But as the ’60s drew to a close, not even another tranche of Top 10 hits could stop the rot. “The biggest illusion in pop music is that all you have to do is succeed,” recall the group. “You actually have to succeed over and over…”

Fantasy Island

1972, Lower Manhattan, a band before their time are establishing a toehold. Fifty years on, in conversation with Jon Savage, New York Dolls' sole surving member recalls their early days on a scene where anything went: feather boas, "trisexuality", ridiculous theatre and more, "In the neighbourhood we were just free, "says David Johansen

Updating synth-pop and avant-dance moves for modern paranoiacs, Syd Minsky-Sargeant’s WORKING MEN’S CLUB are poised to bring their stark yet luminous sounds to the mainstream. But how will popularity sit with this self-confessed “awkward outsider”? “If I could backtrack,” he tells IAN HARRISON, “I’d probably choose to be anonymous.”

MARCH 30, LONDON’S CORSICA STUDIOS. IN AN INTIMATE

TIME AND TIDE

Sixty years since THE BEACH BOYS signed to Capitol and released their first defining discs, MOJO celebrates the group’s formative phase. From page 64, BRIAN WILSON, MIKE LOVE, AL JARDINE and BRUCE JOHNSTON reflect on the road to Pet Sounds. But first, How 1962 Changed Everything – an extract from the upcoming new edition of DAVID LEAF’s legendary Brian Wilson biog, God Only Knows

YOU STILL BELIEVE IN ME

DAVID LEAF celebrates 40-odd years in Brian Wilson’s inner circle with a book reboot. “I felt like I was on a mission,” he tells DANNY ECCLESTON.

NOW WE ARE 60…

...ish. The surviving Beach Boys deliver their own, typically contradictory takes on their irresistible rise to TOM DOYLE.

SOUNDS OF FREEDOM

IT’S MAY 1986, AND NBC’S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

A Body Of Evidence

PATTI SMITH: singer, poet, warrior… But also, detective, collecting the clues that build a picture of herself. As her rock’n’roll mission hits the road once more, she takes time to share some of her most meaningful possessions, prompting talk of desks and dancing, new songs and old, sadness and hope. “We’re allowed to celebrate being alive,” she tells ANDREW MALE. Portrait by BRAD TRENT

Greater love hath no man

The mellowed firebrand wonders about the workings of love. How this generation’s Dylan got saved. By Grayson Haver Currin. Illustration by Borja.

FILTER REISSUES

Yesterday’s Gone Fleetwood Mac’s long-reigning queen of the

Little Green

Green-eyed teenage singer Linda Hoover made a record with some future heavyweights. Then nothing happened.

BURIED TREASURE

The cat with the scat: Mark Murphy, the

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