THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Bill DeMain A songwriter and half of the

SMALL FACES

LIVE. RARE. UNRELEASED.

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING

The Harder They Come

Reggae’s elder eminence who fought for justice all his life, Jimmy Cliff left us on November 24.

Fabs: Leyton Is Real

RARITIES! RECORD SHOPS! CRATEDIGGERS ASSEMBLE!

21st Century Neil Young

Roll another 200 numbers for the road!

Jung Hearts

Sleeper agents: Andwellas Dream (from left) Nigel Smith,

Who turned down big hits?

Let us answer your musical questions and associated rock-related inquiries.

Here Come The Nice (records)

Win! A rare red wax test pressing, plus autographed art print, of Small Faces’ classic Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake .

Francis Rossi and Status Quo

It started, obsessedly, in a holiday camp. But did it really ever end?

Theories, rants, etc.

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The Soul Brother

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

THE STORY OF GUY STEVENS, APOSTLE OF ROCK & ROLL, COMES TO THE SCREEN

Wise Guy: (main) visionary producer Stevens, and (clockwise

Ezra Furman

Heading your way soon: a woman on a mission, but not on the shabbat .

JUST LIKE KICKSTARTING OVER: FOLK LEGEND DICK GAUGHAN OPENS THE BOX

“I DIDN’T EXPECT this,” Dick Gaughan tells MOJO

ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY HITMAKER BOB LIND TAKES HIS SECOND CHANCE

Elusive character: (above) Bob Lind before he

PRAISE CARDINALS, PUNK ROMANTICS RECLAIMING IRISH ROOTS FROM THE FOLK CABAL

“We did not want to sound like the

MEET MOMOKO GILL, INTIMATE ELECTRONIC DISRUPTOR OF UK JAZZ

“I’M ALWAYS playing with tension,” says Japan-raised, London-based

MOJO PLAYLIST

It’s time! For Syrian rave, reggae blues and Bowie covers.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Judas Priest’s heavy metal air-raid siren lived a lie before grasping the nettle of his sexuality. Now his honesty and passion drive him and his band onwards towards their eighth decade. “I still love my metal,” insists Rob Halford.

BLEU IS THE COLOUR

“Stifled” in The Jam, bewitched by jazz and soul, enlivened by the café culture of Paris and Sorrento, PAUL WELLER struck out for new horizons, with an idea for a freewheeling collective instead of a hidebound band. As an expanded reissue of Café Bleu hits the shelves, he blows the froth off the first phase of The Style Council. “It was like life had been coloured in,” he tells TED KESSLER.

ONCE AND FUTURE KING

B.B. KING was the gracious, perma-gigging ambassador of the blues, but his seeming serenity glossed a rollercoaster career, struggles with racism and gambling, audiences lost and found. As a new tribute album reinforces his legacy, MAT SNOW goes to bat for arguably the most underrated legend of the form, starting with the gig that turned everything around

MOJO PRESENTS

UK folk pathfinders THE UNTHANKS celebrate their 20th anniversary with special shows this month. Their family bond and creative health abide – with unexpected support from Robert Wyatt and Mackenzie Crook – but they’ve been tested, emotionally and financially, again and again. “Every year it’s a leap of faith,” they tell JIM WIRTH .

BLOOD BROTHER

Suicide singer ALAN VEGA was a writer and performer like no other, willing to go to any extreme to force a reaction, whether wonder, hatred or horror. As his key early solo albums re-emerge, his balls, brilliance and bloody-mindedness still blow the mind. As bandmate Martin Rev attests, “Alan was the most totally dedicated artist I’ve ever met.”

The Seeker

The death of John Coltrane brought profound psychological and spiritual crisis to his wife and musical confederate, Alice. But from it came her adoption of the harp, followed by music of transcendent beauty. In this extract from his magisterial new ALICE COLTRANE biography, ANDY BETA reveals how she stepped into the light: "The piano is the sunrise and the harp is the sunset..."

SKIDS PLAY THE ABSOLUTE GAME

They were straight-out-of-Dunfermline punks. Then Stuart Adamson’s heroic guitars and Richard Jobson’s rabble-rouser intellectualism took them somewhere more complex and anthemic. Heroic, fiery hits including Into The Valley and Masquerade followed, but as well as creative struggles and line-up shifts, darkness and tragedy were waiting. “There was much more to the Skids than simply punk,” say the band and their collaborators, who recall “an ongoing tension… that ended up breaking the band.”

IT’S ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL

SMALL FACES ’ metamorphosis from pilled-up enfants terrible into groovy psychedelic magi remains one of the wonders of the ’60s rock revolution. But as Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake returns, laden with unreleased bounty, witnesses including drummer KENNEY JONES still wonder how their greatest work sounded their death knell. “Subconsciously,” they tell TOM DOYLE , “we were all thinking, How could you beat Ogdens’ ?”

MOJO FILTER

YOUR GUIDE TO THE MONTH'S BEST MUSIC EDITED

Guiding spirit

The dream river keeps on flowing through metaphysical singer-songwriter’s ninth post-Smog album.

Dub housing

Irish brothers’ cold-blooded old times recalled on fourth LP.

She sells sanctuary

Country-rock queen smells the sulphur; proffers shelter from the storm.

Begin the beguine

Joy and heartbreak, rendered in analogue, from towering New England talent.

AMERICANA

Lucy Kitchen ★★★★ In The Low Light BOHEMIAN

ALSO RELEASED

The Lowest Pair ★★★★ Always As Young As

JAZZ

Aaron Shaw ★★★★ And So It Is LEAVING.

ALSO RELEASED

Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions ★★★★ Mahalle NUBLU. DL/LP

All at sea

The prog giants’ much maligned and misunderstood 1973 concept album reappears in deluxe expanded and enhanced form. Mark Blake braves a deep dive.

Breaking away

All seven hours of the legendary December 1965 residency that would change Davis’s sound forever.

Cobb salad

The songwriter and producer who mixed preppy pop, soul and garage rock.

Things have changed

Dylan’s career since 1991 gets the careful reading and listening reserved for what came before.

If it ain’t broken

The life and legacy of the great Marianne Faithfull gets the bells-and-whistles treatment. But was it all necessary? Asks Andrew Male.