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A LIT TLE GROGGY FROM MOJO’S 30TH
birthday celebrations last month, it’s sobering to be reminded of what longevity can really mean. The Rolling Stones have now existed for over twice as long as MOJO, and while other artists of their vintage have grappled with the ageing process for a good couple of decades, Messrs Jagger, Richards and Wood mostly remain imper vious to such trifling distractions as mortality. “It’s a weird feeling to be an elder statesman,” Keith Richards tells us, though most of us would’ve called him as much since about 1989.
Mick Jagger, meanwhile, confesses to a few “slightly tongue-in-cheek references to ageing” on Hackney Diamonds, the twenty-fourth Rolling Stones album and the pretext for this month’s extensive chat with the core three, their pugnacious new dr ummer Steve Jordan, and their young producer Andrew Watt. It is, hand on heart, the best Stones feature you’ll read in years: one that’s as strong on historic myth-busting as it is on unpicking the new record, and which – amidst a justifiable blizzard of namedropping – has a superb Hoagy Carmichael anecdote.
Good yarns also proliferate on the MOJO Record Club podcast, where you can now binge on over 30 episodes for free and hear Peter Buck, Robert Fripp, Rickie Lee Jones, Thurston Moore, Kevin Rowland and many others discuss their musical passions with Andrew Male. It’s a series we’re ver y proud of, and one that we’re thrilled to finally share with all of you.