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 CARTOGRAPHICAL CONTRIBUTORS ARE...

THE BEST NEW MUSIC OF THE YEAR

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

Theories, rants, etc.

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Primal Screen • It’s nutjobs, drugs and madness time on the set of peak-period indie label rock-u-drama Creation Stories . But who’s playing Liam and Noel?

CREAM PLAYED BY TWO SONS AND A NEPHEW – BUT WHAT’S GOING ON BENEATH?

GIMME FIVE… RECORDS MADE AT THE PYRAMIDS

Sound innovation • To celebrate the musical talent and creativity on show at the 2019 Hyundai Mercury Prize, we are offering you the chance to win tickets to this year’s show, courtesy of Hyundai.

JOHN FOXX & THE MATHS REDISCOVER THE POWER OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR AND “DARK, WRITHING GLAMOUR.”

FACT SHEET

ALSO WORKING

NODDY HOLDER • Slade’s bangin’ man talks working men’s clubs, old comrades and Mod dancing.

NODS’N’ ROCKERS

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE • Snooker and prog don Steve Davis glorifies Magma’s Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (A&M, 1973).

ELTON’S TINY DANCER WAS ABOUT HER. NOW MAXINE TAUPIN AUCTIONS HER LYRICS.

Watch That Man • The final word on Terry O’Neill’s images of David Bowie, with unseen treasure.

SELF PORTRAIT JOAN CEWOMAN • The damnably devoted soul-searcher in her own words and by her own hand.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS AS YOUNG MEN: IT’S LITERARY PUNKS FONTAINES D.C.

FACT SHEET

MILES, MUDDY… AND JAMILA WOODS . A NU-SOUL POET HONOURS HER HEROES.

FACT SHEET

MOJO PLAYLIST • Sound the alarm – it’s the month’s best bounce, pop and hairiness.

THE LEGACY

Good Old Funky Music • Crescent City voice and keyboard champion Art Neville left us on July 22.

THEY ALSO SERVED

His spiritual visions of The Big Music set The Waterboys on their epic voyage, though there would be storms, doldrums and men overboard. Through it all, a siren call has led him on. “Pan is my boss,” insists Mike Scott.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor on Mike Scott’s folk rock radicalism.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Pan’s people: in search of Captain Scott.

GREAT SCOTT! • The wilder adventures of a Waterboy.

MOJO PRESENTS • Passionate radicals in a showbiz hothouse, BLACK MIDI emerged from Adele’s old school with an encyclopaedic knowledge of great music and an exhilarating prog-mathjazz-Krautrock debut. But how did such an uncompromising band become 2019’s most feted newcomers, asks BEN THOMPSON? By following Damo Suzuki’s edict: “Make a noise!”

Avant MIDI! • Four mind-blowing discoveries in the BLACK MIDI record collection.

By The Way Which One’s Jethro?

Flute Of The Loons • TEN KEY JETHROB TULL ALBUMS.

This As A Brick! • THE TULL TALE IS NOW A HEFTY TOME. MARK BLAKE REPORTS.

THE MAESTRO • JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER WAS THE MOST ORIGINAL WRITER AND ARRANGER OF THE ÂGE DÕOR OF FRENCH POP – RIGHT-HAND MAN TO SERGE GAINSBOURG AND BRIGITTE...