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Tom Doyle Celie Byrne. William Claxton, Alysse Gafkjen

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

Theories, rants, etc.

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The Coal Miner’s Daughter

Loretta Lynn, who redefined the place of women in country music, has left us at the age of 90.

Who played songs live but didn’t record them?

Let us answer the rock’n’roll questions and puzzling enigmas which won’t stop nagging.

Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember and Spacemen 3

It began at art college with a sno of ether. And ended with toxic non-communication.

Happy Birthday, Painter Man

Sgt. Pepper artist Sir Peter Blake is 90! Heavy friends prepare to celebrate, talk cover collaboration.

UNEARTHED! PETTY’S ’97 TREASURES WITH JOHN LEE HOOKER AND MORE…

Ripping up the script: Tom Petty & The

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ALT-COUNTRY REAL-DEAL MARGO PRICE ’SHROOMS HER WAY TO LP FOUR

Price in 2022: “it’s just a new direction.”

JOHNNY MARR

Manchester’s greatest living guitarist talks momentum, forbid-den visions and The Queen Is Dead.

Black Thought

The Roots’ rhyme technician hails Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988, Def Jam).

OUT OF THE TRASH, INTO THE MUSEUM – PUNK ROCK CEMENTS ITS ARTEFACT STATUS

WHEN DEAD Kennedys romped through Elvis’s Viva Las

INTUITIVE GREENWICH VILLAGE ALUMNUS ERIC ANDERSEN FORGES ON

“Writing is a way of living life twice”:

Connection Is Made

The 1993-2012 music photography of Pat Pope, collected.

HOW RICH RUTH SURVIVED CARJACKINGS, TORNADOS AND GIANT BANDS TO ACHIEVE SOLO SPIRITUAL ASCENSION

Seeing double: Rich Ruth blends the soothing and

SCOTT WALKER MEETS DUBSTEP? SUPPORT JOCKSTRAP, MUSIC SCHOOL DISRUPTERS!

LONDON-BASED duo Jockstrap accept their name is a

MOJO PLAYLIST

Listen! For the month’s best desert blues, post-punk and soul jazz.

Photocopier ink salesman turned art-funk prankster, his natty dreads and Muppet grin have been staples behind the faders for Dylan, the Stones and legends galore. So what has he learned? “You don’t control the lightning,” says Don Was.

Portrait by KEVIN SCANLON D ON WAS IS

THE BEST OF 2022

It was the year the world woke up. There were gigs galore. Some – Macca at Glasto, the Stones in the Park, Joni at Newport, Dylan everywhere – epochal. The Queen passed. Ukraine resisted. Jazz transcended. In Britain, indie bit back. Over 29 pages, MOJO celebrates the music that meant most in 12 months of turmoil, and the notes of hope that kept us keepin’ on.

Never Mind The Bollocking

Colourful if controversial, Danny Boyle’s Pistol bio-series won over the sceptics… except one. “John probably felt it should have been his story,” the director tells Pat Gilbert.

From the Isle Of Wight to… the world? The droll punk of WET LEG’s debut album wowed their homeland in 2022. But winning over the Home Of Jazz? A step too far, too soon for our dynamic duo? “You have to learn to trust your gut,” they assure GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.

MOJO PRESENTS

THE 75 BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

40 THE MARS VOLTA The Mars Volta (CLOUDS

“He Never Stops And Just Fades Away”

Just two new albums and five meticulously curated archive releases in 12 months from the inexhaustible Neil Young. But what next? “We like being surprised,” Crazy Horse tell Chris Catchpole.

“It Felt Like I Was Released In Some Way”

Faith, Hope And Carnage, Nick Cave’s collection of lockdown interviews with Seán O’Hagan, filled eyes with tears and hearts with hope. But it wasn’t just about grief and loss and God and healing. As Cave tells Danny Eccleston, “Everything circles back to music.”

THE 75 BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

30 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Life On

“We Were Watching With Our Minds Blown”

When Joni Mitchell appeared on-stage at the Newport Folk Festival in July, it was the culmination of years of encouragement, and is set to bear more extraordinary fruit in 2023. But as her bandmates reveal, her comeback was in the balance until the very last moment. “No one knew if Joni would be up to it,” they tell Grayson Haver Currin.

ON YOUR MOJO CD THIS MONTH...

1 WET LEG Too Late Now “Now everything

THE 75 BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

10 FONTAINES D.C. Skinty Fia (PARTISAN) “I always

“Getting Off The Sauce Gave Me A Chance”

How sobriety, storytelling and a Scouser from the 1800s helped put a fragile talent back on top.

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2022

Purple reign: Prince And The Revolution in their

“I Hope You Can Hear More”

How do you make The Beatles’ best album (ahem!) even better? With a little help from Peter Jackson. “Pushing the technology felt very ‘Beatles’,” Giles Martin tells Danny Eccleston.

“THE BEST THING I’VE HEARD ALL YEAR!”

OUR FAVOURITE MUSICIANS’ FAVOURITE MUSIC OF 2022

“THE BEST THING I’VE HEARD ALL YEAR!”

Oumou Sangaré: Lucy Dacus, setting an example she

BROOD ON THE TRACKS

BOB’S NEW BOOK!

RICK WAKEMAN CROWNS PROG WITH THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII

MOJO EYEWITNESS

THERE’S NO OTHER

FUSING ART AND PUNK AND CLASSIC POP IN THEIR LOWER EAST SIDE CRUCIBLE, BLONDIE BECAME A POSTER ON THE WORLD’S BEDROOM WALL, UNIQUELY ICONIC. BUT AS THEIR REVELATORY 2022 BOX SET REVEALED, THEY WERE A BAND FOR ALL SEASONS, WITH STRENGTHS THEIR FAME OBSCURED AND, PERHAPS, ULTIMATELY UNDERMINED. “WE WERE OUR OWN WORST ENEMY ONCE WE GOT SUCCESS,” THEY TELL TOM DOYLE.

Soul Asylum

The Boss finds spiritual nourishment in 15 covers, most from the golden age of Motown, Stax and Atlantic. By David Fricke. Illustration by Borja.

JAZZ

Esbjörn Svensson ★★★★ HOME.S ACT. CD/DL/LP Recently unearthed

AMERICANA

Various ★★★★ Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy

FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA

Attawalpa ★★★★ Presence ATTAWALPA. CD/DL/LP Luis Felber (Jamie

Show Your Working

Reverseengineering Hunky Dory via demos, BBC sessions, live and studio recordings from Bowie’s most productive year. By David Buckley.

A Mess Of Help

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REISSUES EXTRA

Marcia Aitken/ June Lodge ★★★ Reggae Impact/ Someone

GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES AND MORE! MOJO’S FINEST WRITING ON LED ZEPPELIN.

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Cringe Benefits

Name-dropping, yarn-spinning, meditating, excruciating: U2’s singer’s action-packed memoir. By Danny Eccleston.

Motor Psycho

At the wheel: RJ Smith’s Chuck Berry biography

Punk Freud

This month’s aural obscurity: tough quasi-psych for the lawless unconscious.

Beyoncé

From girl-group to global domination. By Victoria Segal.

DECEMBER 1972 …orchestral Tommy hits the stage!

A night at the rock opera: (clockwise