THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Lucy O’Brien Lucy has been a music writer

PINK FLOYD

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THE KINKS

A 60TH ANNIVERSARY SAMPLER

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

Theories, rants, etc.

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The Chosen One To Speak

De La Soul rapper David Jude Jolicoeur , AKA Trugoy The Dove, left us on February 12.

APRIL 2003 …rock reacts to the Iraq War

On the anti-war path: Dixie Chicks’ Natalie

Who invaded the stage?

Let us answer those tricky rock queries and illuminate the dusty corners of musical enquiry.

Ivan Julian and Richard Hell & The Voidoids

The Blank Generation was declared at CBGB in NY, but all crumbled when the lustre wore off.

This Is A Love Song

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

REBORN! DOLLY COLLINS’ LOST SECULAR MASS MISSA HUMANA

Mass appeal: (left, from left) Dolly and Shirley

FROM DUBVILLE STUDIOS, YUSUF/CAT STEVENS BRINGS REDEMPTIVE LP 17

By royal appointment: Yusuf/ Cat Stevens in La

Feist

Canada’s veracious original talks war cries, the Arcade Fire situation and calling the gods.

Colin Blunstone

The Zombies’ singer remembers the hurricane that was Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel (RCA Victor, 1956).

RECORD STORE DAY IS HERE AGAIN! BUT WHAT TO BUY?

TRY AND PICK up David Bowie’s earliest 45s

BRISTOL ART-ROCKERS THE BLUE AEROPLANES SOAR AGAIN

The Swagger-era Blue Aeroplanes – with Gerard Langley

IRISH FOLK SEER LISA O’NEILL TAKES THE UNLIKELY WALK OF LIFE

“If anything has a story in it and

INTRODUCING SAM BURTON, THE LA SCENE’S TAROT-READING RHINESTONE COWBOY

BACKSTAGE AT London’sRoundhouse, Sam Burton is preparing for

MOJO PLAYLIST

Attention! It’s the month’s best grooves, riffs and

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

U2’s sonic scientist has just reanimated 40 of their classic songs: the latest experiment in six decades of tinkering, questioning, taking it all quite seriously. “Being in a band, we didn’t want it to be a trivial thing,” says The Edge.

BROAQDWAY MELODIES

That’s Muswell Hill Broadway, of course: the birthplace, or thereabouts, of THE KINKS , 60 years ago. Time for rock’s least orthodox band to help celebrate 10 of their key kompositions: songs of lust and loss, fragility and despair, that remind them of good times and bad. “The emotions are so powerful,” they tell ANDREW MALE . “So varied."

YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE

Dependable foil to “unhappy” Chris Bell and “unpredictable” Alex Chilton, mainstay of multiple incarnations of BIG STAR, JODY STEPHENS has kept the band’s torch alight with poise and positivity, alongside roles as Ardent Studio CEO and one half of Those Pretty Wrongs. All this and nearly the drummer in Wings? “Fm a cup-half-full guy,” he tells BILL DEMAIN

MOJO PRESENTS

Seems you can’t have a Grammys these days without AROOJ AFTAB, the transportational Pakistani singer melding jazz and Qawwali with spice of her own. But, with her star ascendant and a new trio album due, she’s wary of pressure on her to ‘represent’. “I’m not a pawn,” she assures VICTORIA SEGAL.

aint it acr punky now

A CERTAIN RATIO’s frosty Factory funk (and shorts) split the tribes of UK post-punk. But history and LCD Soundsystem were on their side. It’s over 40 years since their first single came in a “special limited edition of 1,000 on poor quality vinyl,” but some things haven’t changed. “We’re all crazy bastards, obviously,” they assure ANDREW PERRY

Mr. SONG

One of the last great star songwriters, linking Milhaud and The Beatles, The Blob and Austin Powers, Burt Bacharach combined sparkling sophistication with a devastating emotional range, turning melodies that taught the world to sing and still amaze peers and devotees. “Burt was in touch with the soul,” they tell Bill DeMain

MR INBETWEEN

FALLING BETWEEN STOOLSOF ROCK AND FOLK AND POP,

WATCH THAT MAN

DAVID BOWIE’s 1973 brought two smash albums, spiralling success, and the first signs of the madness that might lurk behind the singer’s beguiling new mask. As Aladdin Sane and Pin Ups celebrate their 50th birthdays, Bowie's colourful comrades - and Lulu - remember a year of musical questing, cocaine and... betrayal? “We were like... ‘What the hell just happened?’” they tell TOM DOYLE

FLASH OF GENIUS

The creation and afterlife of the Aladdin Sane album cover, by DANNY ECCLESTON

BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER PLANET

GEOFF MACCORMACK’s new book peeks behind the scenes of a lifetime’s friendship.

BEHIND THE MASKS

JUSTIN DE VILLENEUVE - the swinging snapper and manager/partner of supermodel Twiggy - recalls that freaky Pin Ups cover shoot

Lost in music

The distinctive pop duo release their first album in 24 years, a homage to love and the dancefloor.

FOLK

Hack-Poets Guild ★★★★ Blackletter Garland ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT.

UNDERGROUND

Samuel Rohrer ★★★★ Codes Of Nature ARJUNA. DL/LP

EXTENDED PLAY

Gina Birch: happy to be in the club.

Unlucky 13

This 13-LP box of their complete studio recordings

Reign in Spain

From an unexpected corner of the world, comes a psych-pop psuccess pstory.

Noblesse Funk

This month’s scorching rediscovery: a forgotten Detroit gem from the R&B cut-out bins

Wilco

The progress of a great American band – via Chicago.

Mystery train

The problematic masterpiece by the blues fiend who chased Robert Johnson’s ghost finally arrives.

FILTER SCREEN

Image courtesy of Mol Kamach Carole King ★★★★

The Wedding Present