PUNK NUGGETS

15 RABBLE-ROUSING RARITIES… CRANK UP REALLY HIGH!

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

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REAL GONE

Who Will Save The World? Tony McPhee, one-of-a-kind guitarist,

AUGUST 1964 The Animals fly close to the Rising Sun

Beastly behaviour: (clockwise from below) The Animals’

Who added new words to instrumentals?

Let us answer your nagging queries and settle any rock-related argument.

Bright Ears

Win! A set of Cleer Alpha wireless headphones.

Midge Ure and Thin Lizzy

It began with 24 hours’ notice. And ended when the day job with Ultravox called.

“Nothing I’ve played before comes close to Glastonbury…”

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO 

Don Letts

Punk’s reggae consigliere bows down to Catch A Fire by The Wailers (Island, 1973).

CELTIC BEATNIK DONOVAN PREPARES A SOUNDTRACK

Gael-house rock: Donovan, still not sticking to any

Nick Lowe

The ace of song talks swinging quietly, touring with Wings, and the nobility of haplessness

50 YEARS AFTER SOUND SYSTEMS FIRST HIT THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL, WHAT’S NEXT?

Linett Kamala, AKA DJ Thunderbird, on the decks

BOBBY RUSH, STILL RUDELY FUNKING UP THE BLUES

Risqué business: Bobby Rush, keeping things raw in

HIT THE TRAILS WITH AMERICANA ADVENTURER MARGO CILKER

Margo Cilker reaches her peak on new LP

MEET BILL ORCUTT, GUITAR RADICAL WITH A WEIRD MOMENTUM 40 YEARS INTO HIS CAREER

“IT’S A MIRACLE to me,” says Bill Orcutt,

MOJO PLAYLIST

Turn on! For the month’s perfect rock, Dead covers and insect odes.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Watching Jimi Hendrix turned a teenage accordion prodigy into a rock’n’roll lifer, solo star and Swiss Army sideman to Bruce and Neil (and Lou). “I’ve kept waiting for the possession to leave me,” says Nils Lofgren, “and it still hasn’t.”

The BITTEREST PIL

It’s been the toughest time for JOHN LYDON – dealing with the illness and death of his wife, Nora. As ever, PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED is the channel for his pain, his anger and, on occasion, his joy. Cue: contempt for the other Pistols and love for Status Quo, on a menu of fear, mischief, laughter and hope. “I have no control over my emotions at all,” he tells TOM DOYLE.

MOJO PRESENTS

The silken voice and lonesome guitar of JULIE BYRNE had sped her on the road to stardom. Then came the sudden death of her closest ally. Would a path through tragedy reveal itself? “There will never be a time where part of me won’t be grieving,” she tells GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN

"I Don't Think This Is My Final Piece"

Seven Psalms' exquisite ruminations on late life and what, if anything, lies beyond have turned more heads than any Paul Simon album since Graceland . Not that the master craftsman of song asked for the praise, or would even know what to do with it. "I'm used to the fact that a lot of what I'm doing, people don’t get,” he tells David Fricke

the hunger

desperate to be different yet insatiable for success, 30 years ago suede smashed records with their debut album. sexy, febrile, romantic, mysterious, it’s both a timeless wonder and a throwback to a time before 'britpop' was a word. "it felt like we were the only band in town,” they tell victoria segal.

BIG STAR

“Shitting a brick” in the White House, playing ping-pong with Alice Cooper, reaping karma with Frank Zappa: it’s been a wild ride for MARK VOLMAN, rich voice of The Turtles and the larger half of Flo & Eddie. Living proof of the power of letting it all hang out? “Many artists wish they could relax and bare their chests,” he tells MARTIN ASTON.

MOTT THE HOOPLE AND QUEEN TAKE BROADWAY, 1974

After some help from Bowie with ’72’s anthem All The Young Dudes, raucous rock’n’rollers Mott The Hoople had cracked Britain. But as glam peaked, their assault on the US was reaching critical mass, and on a spring ’74 US tour they reached a ferocious peak with a week of gigs at New York’s Uris Theatre, with support from Queen. “America was such an eye-opener,” say the band, associates and Brian May, but “just as Mott were on the verge of greatness, the band imploded.”

UNDER HER SPEIL

MARKING SIOUXSIE SIOUX'S SHOCK RETURN TO THE STAGE, WRITERS AND BAND MEMBERS SALUTE THE POST-PUNK ICON'S MASTERY AND MYSTERY, AND CELEBRATE THE SWIRLING, SHADOWY SOUND OF HER BANSHEES. BUT FIRST, MARK PAYTRESS ON SIOUXSIE’S RISE, REVIVAL AND THE WOMAN BEHIND THE IMPERIOUS PERSONA: “I’M NOT THE CARTOON CHARACTER EVERYONE WOULD LIKE ME TO BE.”

IN THE BEGINNING

FROM THE CRUCIBLE OF PUNK, ONE OF ITS KEY FACES EMERGED TO INSPIRE THE NEXT DECADE OF MUSIC AND MORE. FROM HIS ENGLAND'S DREAMING TAPES, JON SAVAGE SALVAGES THE FIRST TRULY REVEALING SIOUXSIE SIOUX INTERVIEW

SCREAMING IN SPACE

IN THIS INTERVIEW FOR JOHN ROBB'S NEW BOOK THE ART OF DARKNESS, THE BANSHEES BASSIST AND SOMETIME SIOUXSIE BEAU TOOK THE AUTHOR THROUGH THE BAND’S FORMATION AND FLOWERING. “IT WAS MEANT T O BE ABRASIVE,” INSISTS STEVE SEVERIN

THE UNHOLY BIBLE

TWELVE SELECT, LONG-PLAYING HIGHLIGHTS FROM SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND VARIOUS BANSHEES, BY ANDREW PERRY

THE LAST BEAT

AND FINALLY: THE MAN WHO MAINTAINED THE BANSHEES’ RHYTHMIC CHASSIS, AND A MARRIAGE TO THEIR IMPERIOUS DIVA, FOR SO LONG. BUDGIE SINGS LIKE A CANARY. MARTIN ASTON HARKS

To the end

Eight years after their last album, Britpop’s golden boys hit that difficult stage.

All heart

The multidisciplinary powerhouse brings a big band to her first set of originals

Jam today

In which the in-demand producer/ guitarist collaborates with cult songwriter Chris Weisman. “We let ourselves dream,” they say.

FOLK

Me Lost Me ★★★★ RPG UPSET THE RHYTHM.

JAZZ

High Pulp ★★★★ Days In The Desert ANTI-.

EXTENDED PLAY

Nicky Wire: happy among the ghosts and flowers. Nicky

The supermodals

Rediscovered per formances documenting the saxophone colossus’s shor t-lived quintet including multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Andrew Male holds on tight.

Dig the pony!

Freedom, Ragged Glory, Weld, Arc – and a little more.

The French dispatch

First re-issue of the sonically ground-breaking third studio LP from the classically trained San Francisco singersongwriter.

Oscillate wildly

Deconstructing pop’s fabric or bleeping on TV, two electronic pioneers embraced the future with differing agendas.

Enter The Psych Library

This month’s slept-on sensation: hypnagogic funky cues for string quartet and band.

Smokey Robinson

He’s America’s greatest living poet you know.

HOW TO BUY

10 Smokey Robinson Where There’s Smoke… TAMLA, 1979 You

FILTER BOOKS

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets ★★★★ Alyn Shipton

Swiss watch

TV mini-series tells the history of Montreux Jazz Festival, via a wealth of on-stage and backstage footage.