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I Thought I Saw You Again

The voice of ANNE BRIGGS, long silent, reaches us over the decades with a rare beauty and power, on the few recordings this wary but resolute folk artist was persuaded to make. About her, not much else is known, and that’s just how she likes it. “I learnt from a very early age to hide behind the song,” she tells JIM WIRTH.“That was my umbrella.”

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS?

A treasure trove of unheard tapes and unseen documents relating to JIMI HENDRIX has been hidden since the early '70s. Finally, its protector Trixie Sullivan is ready to share its contents with MOJO - along with strong opinions on some abiding Hendrix controversies. "Do you know what bullshit is?" she asks Danny Eeereston. Portrait: BARRY PEAKE

With immaculate harmonies and ’70s hair, and fans including Weyes Blood and Todd Rundgren, THE LEMON TWIGS are throwbacks to a golden age of pop sophistication. They also do mid-air splits that make Paul Simon gasp. Is it time for them to seal the deal? “We’re aiming for something timeless,” they tell JAMES McNAIR.

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DAVID BOWIE and MICK RONSON were one of the great double acts: scintillating and simpatico, taboo-smashing in ways ‘Ronno’ was not always comfortable with. In her new memoir, Bowie’s Ziggyera stylist – and later, Ronson’s wife – gives the inside track on their rise, fall, reunion, and the untimely end of one of rock’s superlative talents. “My God, those two together,” marvels .

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Testing the limit of what a rock band could be, the late WAYNE KRAMER propelled the MC5 through revolt and reverse, and, after a dramatic personal redemption, tended their legacy with passion and commitment. Out of a lifetime of hard-learned lessons, had come rare wisdom. "Love, man, that makes all the difference," he told BOB MEHR.

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From south London via the Caribbean, they launched their super-rhythmic psych-funk ‘nyah-rock’ in the clubs of Britain in 1971. Success awaited in America, where they headlined the Harlem Apollo, toured with Al Green and sowed hip-hop seeds with killer cuts like Dove and Bra. Yet Britain didn’t know what it had, and in 1974 they began a 40-year hiatus. “You can’t be superstars coming from Balham,” say the resurgent band, friends and admirers, “[but] we were so ahead of our time we still fit in.”

BROTHERS GONNA WORK IT OUT

Forty years since the first Green River demos, 30 since the death of Kurt Cobain sank their world in chaos, PEARL JAM abide, flying a flag for rock’s outsiders, finding new ways to express their anger and their hope. A new album, Dark Matter, testifies to their uniqueness as musicians, but also as people. “We got through by looking out for each other,” they tell DAVID FRICKE

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