MOJO

Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.

THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

YOU’VE GOT EVERYTHING NOW • MOJO PRESENTS 15 INDIE CLASSICS FROM THE 1980s THE FALL, THE SUGARCUBES, THE WEDDING PRESENT, SHOP ASSISTANTS & MORE!

ALL BACK TO MY PL ACE

Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication. Write to us at: MOJO, H Bauer Publishing, The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PL. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

Colophon

Feeling The Space • Snip! Saw! Bum? The Tate Modern readies a major Yoko Ono retrospective.

NEIL YOUNG RELAXES INTO HIS RARITIES - PACKED COASTAL TOUR

OMD RETURN – BUT IS IT THEIR LAST STAND?

Herb Alpert

Alabaster DePlume

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

NYC NO-WAVERS BUSH TETRAS GROOVE ON

PLASTIC SOUL REVIVALIST WILLIE J HEALEY GETS BACK IN THE RING

NEW YORK REPROBATES PRISON BREAK OUT OF THE ENDLESS BOOGIE!

MOJO PLAYLIST

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....