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…

Love In Vain

ALL BACK TO MY PL ACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

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

Amusements Never End • Peter Gabriel talks about new LP i/o, absence, mind-reading, Genesis, and “raising the middle finger to death.”

A MONKEE SINGS R.E.M.? MICKY DOLENZ TALKS THE ART OF THE COVER VERSION

Mike Skinner • The Streets’ UK rap auteur talks country music, raving in your forties and making movies.

Brian Auger

SONGWRITING LEGEND MIKE STOLLER CELEBRATES 70 YEARS IN MUSIC!

PHOENIX ROOTS NOISE ROCKERS MEAT PUPPETS RAGE AGAIN

ALLISON RUSSELL REDRAWS THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICANA

MOJO PLAYLIST

ABANDONED HARPS! PULP CONNECTIONS! BAS JAN TUNE IN TO THE ART-PUNK SPIRIT OF ’79

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THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Ross Halfin, Shawn Brackbill Flying high with the Eagles, his rock’n’rolling madness masked tragedy and insecurity. So how did 2023’s Ringo Starr and VetsAid stalwart get so reliable, so responsible? “I’m part of something now,” says Joe Walsh.

WE HAVE NO SECRETS • CARLY SIMON's first three albums are treasures of the singer- songwriter era, their songs inextricably entwined with her life and her loves, with James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and Mick Jagger. It was a long time ago, but as she tells SYLVIE SIMMONS in an ultra-rare interview, "my memory is good, and I've got my diaries, about 2,000 pages...

THE GOOD NOISE BIBLE • THURSTON MOORE'S NEW BOOK IS AS MUCH ABOUT THE WILD AND GNARLY ARTISTS WHO INSIRED HIM AS IT IS ABOUT SONIC YOUTH. THE BAND THAT MADE HIS NAME WHAT YOU WON'T FIND IS THE SKINNY ON HIS MARRIAGE TO KIM GORDON. "I DID'T WANT TO BE HAVING THIS NARRATNE BATTLE." HE TELLS ANDREW MALE.

"ONCE IN A WHILE EVERBODY HAS A BAD DAY • THURSTON MOORE DIDN'T WANT HIS BOOK T BE "MY FORTUITOUS MEETINGS WITH ROCK STARS" EXCEPT FOR THESE ONES…

TOUCHED BY THE HAND OF BOB

THE MILLION DOLLAR BASH • DYLAN-WHISPERER GREIL MARCUS ON THE 1960 MADISON PARTY TAPE: ADOCUMENT OF THE BARD’S BECOMING.

MOJO PRESENTS • Taking soul, gospel and R&B into the future, BL ACK PUM AS are the odd couple dream team with The Rolling Stones’ stamp of approval. Their second album promises next-level scenes, as long as their clashing personalities don’t generate too much friction. “It’s what makes the creative sparks fly,” they tell ANDREW PERRY.

PUM A TRAINERS • Four records that inspired Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada’s partnership.

Behind The Shades • In the mid-’70s Graham Parker came out of nowhere, with a fistful of killer songs and a hell of a band. And if he never enjoyed the fame of his flashier new wave contemporaries, he left with the kudos and, as his new album underlines, a career. “I shouldn’t have survived,” he tells Sylvie Simmons. “But I did.”

Spark of...