THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Getty, Joe Wilson Kate Simon Photographer Kate’s subjects,

YOU’VE GOT EVERYTHING NOW

MOJO PRESENTS 15 INDIE CLASSICS FROM THE 1980s THE FALL, THE SUGARCUBES, THE WEDDING PRESENT, SHOP ASSISTANTS & MORE!

Colophon

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ALL BACK TO MY PL ACE

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

REAL GONE

Mother courage: Sinéad O’Connor in London, 1991 Out

TIME MACHINE

Natural wonder: (clockwise from left) Queen of Soul

Which songs don’t mention their title?

Let us solve your rock conundrums and join the dots of music obscuria.

Sound, Sound, Deeper In Sound

Win! Primo FiiO FT3 headphones and a FiiO R7 desktop hi-fi hub.

Nick Banks and Pulp

It began with a rogue bulldog. And went into hibernation when “other things” beckoned.

Theories, rants, etc.

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Feeling The Space

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO 

NEIL YOUNG RELAXES INTO HIS RARITIES - PACKED COASTAL TOUR

Bringing the love: Neil Young on-stage (train set

OMD RETURN – BUT IS IT THEIR LAST STAND?

Synth you’ve been gone: (left) OMD’s Andy McCluskey

Herb Alpert

The A&M/Tijuana Brass guvnor talks the Carpenters, ‘artists first’ and being an introvert.

Alabaster DePlume

The free musician bows to Paul Robeson’s Old Man River, on At Carnegie Hall (Vanguard, 1960).

PAUL RODGERS RETURNS! WITH HIS FIRST NEW LP FOR 24 YEARS…

“W HEN I LEFT Middlesbrough for the big,

NYC NO-WAVERS BUSH TETRAS GROOVE ON

Making waves: Bush Tetras (from left) Laura Kennedy,

PLASTIC SOUL REVIVALIST WILLIE J HEALEY GETS BACK IN THE RING

Free Willie: the gloves are off for Healey.

NEW YORK REPROBATES PRISON BREAK OUT OF THE ENDLESS BOOGIE!

PAUL MAJOR, singer/guitarist with New York underground supergroup

MOJO PLAYLIST

This month’s eco-punk, jazz-folk and blues for Mammon.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

The sonic pathfinder for Bolan and Bowie (but also Morrissey and Mary Hopkin) straddles glam and folk and prog and pop and is still twiddling knobs as he closes in on his eighties. “It’s been an emotional rollercoaster,” sighs Tony Visconti.

POSITIVE VIBRATION

KATE SIMON’s pictures of Bob Marley and his generation of reggae stars are among the most iconic music portraits ever taken. With a new edition of her Rebel Music portfolio nigh, Simon talks MOJO through a wealth of its highlights, and the secret of her spectacular access. “They thought I was a hallucination!” she tells DANNY ECCLESTON.

Some kind of Beautiful

A British Leonard Cohen mixed with Nico, admired by Nick Drake, John Martyn, and Bowie, Bridget St John was the square peg in England’s folk-rock love-in. But, like that velvet voice, her music has only gained in resonance. And it seems there’s no end to it yet. “Stuff is still coming,” she tells Andrew Male “It never stopped.”

MOJO PRESENTS

BLAKE MILLS is the go-to guitarist with a big hand in Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan’s recent revivals, and a solo artist of grace and invention. But whether working for legends or for himself, he’s always mining for “some precious ore”. “You never want to sound like you’re just talking,” he tells VICTORI A SEGA L.

Cry One More Time

Half a century ago, Eram Parsons met his maker, but not before two solo albums, rich in country soul, fulfilled a portion of his promise. The tragedy and, perhaps, the inevitability of that loss is still felt by friends and fellow musicians. “There was a transgressive aspect to Gram,” they tell Erayson Haver (Currin. “He crossed lines and crossed borders, even when it was really irresponsible.”

HAWKWIND PERFORM THE SPACE RITUAL

After freak hit Silver Machine, Ladbroke Grove’s hard-tripping space rock marauders prepared to leave the planet and blow minds via a legendary multimedia stage show which they took on tour in late ’72. Cue mind-scrambling cosmologies, scorched retinas and riffs to make you ill. “The band and the audience seemed to grow into one creature,” recall players and collaborators. “Being in the middle of it was something else…”

IT’S TIME THE TALE WERE TOLD…

…About THE SMITHS and how they rebooted British guitar music, 40 years ago. In the light of bassist Andy Rourke’s tragic recent passing, their timeless alloy of ’60s guitars and ’80s dissent feels greater than ever, and – as new interviews with key players reveal – they were never more potent than in their vital first phase, 1982-84. “They knew they were riding a wave,” discovers TOM DOYLE.

On further reflection

Wirral wanderers set the existential scene on cinematic double bill.

AMERICANA

The Handsome Family ★★★★ Hollow LOOSE. CD/DL/LP The

JAZZ

Jaimie Branch ★★★★★ Fly Or Die Fly Or

As nasty as she wanna be

To mark the 50th anniversary of her self-titled debut, four essential remastered titles from the queen of avant-funk get a well-deserved reissue. Andrew Male gets down.

Deity deeds

Top of this month’s anti-matter hit parade of the lost, a psychic mixtape plays…

Bee Gees

The awkward genius of three brothers from the Isle Of Man.

The postman always rings twice

The poignant and funny storyteller tells his own story – again and again