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ROBERTA FLACK. RICK BUCKLER. MIKE RATLEDGE.

Gwen McCrae. Jerry Butler. Jamie Muir. After the losses of Marianne Faithfull, Garth Hudson and Sam Moore in the weeks and days leading up to MOJO 377, it’s been another sobering month for bereavements in our world, and one which makes us think about the work MOJO needs to do for our readers.

This issue achieves a lot of what we shoot for each month. Great, unheard stories proliferate: about Brian Wilson, and Prince; about hash parties with Jeff Bridges and James Mason; about Elvis Costello’s taste for a pomelo. New interviews with artists as diverse as the Sex Pistols, Dionne Warwick and our cover stars Queen show how legends often feel free to talk with more tenderness and frankness as the years pass. And there are enough fresh music recommendations to keep you busy for the next few weeks – like Japanese Breakfast, Annie & The Caldwells and Emma-Jean Thackray among many others.

There’s also a requirement for MOJO to be popular music’s journal of record – a magazine that can commemorate the lives of generational heroes, but ensure that artists a little further away from the spotlight are remembered, too. Artists, perhaps, like Bill Fay, who passed away on February 22. This brilliant singer-songwriter’s career began again in 1998, when a small label rescued his first two solo albums from long neglect, and MOJO made them our Reissues Of The Month. A rediscovery of a genius, for an enchanted new audience – and now a celebration of an unorthodox creative life well-lived. It’s the least, hopefully, that we can do.