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…

FOREVER YOUNG • THE BEST OF 1974

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…

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Love’s Labours Found • Eighteen years after his death, a new Arthur Lee album? Players and producers explain all.

GIGS, MEMOIRS AND A BIO-PIC? WELCOME BACK, TERRY ‘SUPERLUNGS’ REID!

GIMME FIVE… RECORDS ABOUT TOES

TREMBLE WITH FEAR, AS PIXIES REVEAL ALBUM 10

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Howard Devoto • The Buzzcocks and Magazine double agent talks “new” music, Pete Shelley and Julius Caesar.

Paul Heaton • Ex-Beautiful South songwriter salutes Spotlight On Al Green (Spotlight On, 1981).

AFTER THE STORM… GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS RETURN TO THE WOODLAND

PROG! CONCEPT LPS! FABS’N’FLOYD! HELLO AGAIN THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

PARSONS OF INTEREST • Three of the Project’s best.

DESERT BLUES MEN ETRAN DE L’AÏR BRING 100% SAHARA GUITAR

JAMMING INSTRUMENTAL ELECTRO, BASIC BRING FUTURISM, FREAKY SHIT AND HITS TO THE BODY

MOJO PLAYLIST • Tune in! For the month’s best garage blues, future soul and deep disco.

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THE MOJO INTERVIEW • A post-punk firebrand cooled by bereavement and industry meltdown, he’s come through surgery and “ego death” with his best album in 30 years. “I still feel like I’ve got a lot left in the tank,” assures The The’s Matt Johnson.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Star Hollywood director JJ Abrams reveals his The The fixation.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • HSoul survivor: Matt down the years.

MATT’S HAT-TRICK • Three life stages of The The, by Danny Eccleston.

THE TIME IS RIGHT • Sixty years ago, the world was ready for a brand new beat, one provided by breakthrough hits by Mary Wells, Martha Reeves, The Supremes and The Temptations. 1964 would prove Motown’s first Golden Year, and though The Beatles and LBJ had parts to play, the label’s genius back room of players, writers and producers were its true stars, writes Nelson George.

EXPORT STRENGTH • How My Guy spearheaded Motown’s reach outside the US, by Adam White.

MADE OF… STARS • SCHOOLED AT HARVARD, SUCCOURED BY THE TWO-CHORD BEATITUDES OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, GALAXIE 500 WERE THE NEO-PSYCHEDELIC JEWEL OF LATE-'905 AMERICAN INDIE ROCK. BUT IF THEIR PERFECTION WAS TOO VOLATILE TO SURVIVE ENNUI AND LABEL MELTDOWN. THEIR CATALOGUE-NOW AUGMENTED BY UNREALESED TREASURES-SHINES ON. "NOTHING LASTS FOREVER," BAND AND ASSOCIATES TELL ROY WILKINSON, "BUT NOTHING IS EVER TRULY LOST."

SPACE JAMS • PRODUCTION GURU KRAMER REVIEWS THE GALAXIE CANON. EXPECT BIAS. RATINGS BY MOJO.

MOJO PRESENTS • Trading as JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, Joan Wasser has spangled this century with her dramatic dressing-up-box pop, while lending multi-instrumental...