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.

MOJO WORKHIG! THE UK R&B EXPLOSION!

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • 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

Just A Shot Away • A new Anita Pallenberg documentary presents her liber tine life and centrality to the Rolling Stones. Plus! Prince Stash.

LUCINDA, RICKIE LEE AND MORE SALUTE LOU REED ON THE POWER OF THE HEART

GIMME FIVE… UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

ALSO WORKING

STEVE DIGGLE LEADS BUZZCOCKS ONWARDS TO LP ELEVEN

Richard Thompson • The folk rocker nonpareil talks crime, booze and the bigger picture.

AFTER WHITE BICYCLES… JOE BOYD’S 800-PAGE ODYSSEY INTO GLOBAL RHYTHMS

Aidan Moffat • Arab Strap’s merciless obser ver gawps in awe at Slint’s Spiderland (Touch And Go, 1991).

JANGLE POP SAGE MARK MULCAHY REDISCOVERS WHAT WAS LOST

Kurt So Good • Thirty years on from Cobain’s death, photobook Charles Peterson’s Nirvana remembers the glory that was grunge.

FROM BUSKING IN PARIS TO DOROTHY PARKER’S ALGONQUIN… THE UNCANNY INTIMACIES OF MYRIAM GENDRON

MOJO PLAYLIST

INTRODUCING CASSIE KINOSHI, BIG BAND TRAILBLAZER FOR THE UK JAZZ RENAISSANCE

The Crowded House leader and tunesmaster on family politics, band politics, Fleetwood Mac politics, and the advantages of not-quite-stardom. “There’s a certain good fortune in having a moderate amount of success,” concedes Neil Finn, OBE.

the Thrill of the Chase • For diehards, Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter was the comeback of the decade. For insiders, the experience was extraordinary, baffling, often exasperating, as, 40 years ago, the dormant star emerged from the arena of myth to craft his strange, 'Tarkovskian' masterpiece. "When he got into the studio he completely changed," learns Ian Harrison. "It was Jekyll and Hyde."

After apprenticing in Carolina Chocolate Drops with Rhiannon Giddens, LEYLA McCALLA emerged with a whole new thing – mashing banjo, cello, New York, New Orleans and Haiti into a unique musical gumbo. The history she mines is dark, but as she insists to VICTORIA SEGAL, “I am determined to be joyful.”

GOT LOUD IF YOU WANT IT • INCITING FRENZIES, WITH FANS “SWINGING FROM THE RAFTERS", THE YARDBIRDS FERAL RAVE-UPS PRESAGED CARACE ROCK, PUNK AND METAL, WHILE STARRING THREE LEAD CUITARISTS FOR THE ACES. SIXTY YEARS SINCE THEIR INCEPTION, THE SURVIVORS REFLECT ON THE BLUES, THE BOOZE AND THE BUST-UPS. "THE REASON WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VARDBIRDS NOW IS BECAUSE WE HAD THAT EDGE," THEY TELL MARK BLAKE.

Dream On! • Acid, improv, cosmic coincidences and an attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon via telekinesis - all in a nacht's work for Tangerine Dream, the biggest band of Germany's '70s sonic revolution. As the prime movers in the group's rise tell Christoph Dallach in his new Krautrock oral history, "Anything could happen at any moment."

ONE FROM THE HEART • Killer grooves and stark,...