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IT IS NOW, AMAZINGLY, 70 YEARS SINCE

Heartbreak Hotel stunned a world only just getting to grips with rock’n’roll. Sixty years since Shapes Of Things, 7 And 7 Is, 96 Tears, You Keep Me Hangin’ On and Good Vibrations pushed popular music to mind-blowing new extremes. Fifty years since David Bowie, moving at ever greater speed, unveiled the radical machine-age soul of Station To Station. And 40 years since a more select group of listeners – this first-year student included – were dazzled by the outback epiphanies of The Triffids and Born Sandy Devotional.

Not a bad bunch of records, all told, and in this issue of MOJO we celebrate these significant anniversaries. As 2026 rolls around, we also find plenty of room to look forwards as well as backwards. There’s an exceptional third album from Dry Cleaning, and Victoria Segal taps into its weird vibrations on page 78. Then we’ve put together a meaty list of new albums, key reissues, books, films and tours that’ll be heading our way over the next 12 months. Early personal favourites? Bill Callahan’s My Days Of 58 and Andy Beta’s Alice Coltrane biography, Cosmic Music. But let’s see how it all plays out in another year’s time…