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…

GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE 1971-1978 FROM THE BAY TO THE POOL

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

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Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication.

Anarchy On The TV • The Sex Pistols hit the small screen? Steve Jones and director Danny Boyle explain why and how.

CULT HEROES • DRIVEN POST-HARDCORE ROCKETMAN SWAMI JOHN REIS GOES IT ALONE

REIS CREAM • Swami John’s triple whammy-on-wax.

SCREEN CAVE-PORTRAIT THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE – REVEALED!

GIMME FIVE… SONGS ABOUT NIGHTCLUBS

HE’S BACK! AFTER 16 YEARS, GREEN GARTSIDE READIES SCRITTI POLITTI LP SIX

ALSO WORKING

COCTEAU TWIN LIZ FRASER RETURNS AT LAST! WITH SUN’S SIGNATURE

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

BONUS BEATS • More admirable RSD oddities to watch for.

RECORD STORE DAY IS HERE AGAIN BUT WHAT’S UP FOR GRABS?

SECOND HELPINGS • More hot platters upcoming in RSD’s June 18 ‘drop’.

ABDUL ‘DUKE’ FAKIR • The last Four Top talks Motown, the borscht belt and inner voices.

LEYLA McCALLA TUNES INTO THE VODOU TRADITIONS AND ÉMIGRÉ STORIES OF RADIO HAITI

THE SOFT, STRONG AND VERY LONG ASCENT OF CAROLINE, LONDON’S UNDERSTATED NEW POST-ROCK HEROES

MOJO PLAYLIST • Gird your loins! For the month’s punk-disco, jazz flutes and soul.

INTERVIEW • Music was his ticket out of Wallsend and helped him face his parents’ deaths. No wonder he says he’ll be making it ’til he’s “too old and stupid to do it any more”. What’s his secret? “I like to work,” says Sting.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Bass Face: Sting through the years.

WHERE IS THY STING? • It’s all here, in three albums, says James McNair.

Mystic Mods • Swapping leapers and button-downs for acid and djellabas, The Action became Mighty Baby. But while Sufism took their music to another level, it also made rock’n’roll, with its breadheads and drug busts, hits and misses, seem frivolous and profane. Ultimately, it pushed them apart, but not before wonders were performed. “We all tasted something extraordinary,” they tell Jim Irvin.

“They Were A Band Crying To Explore” • RICHARD THOMPSON was a fan and a friend of Mighty Baby and eventually joined their spiritual search.

PRESENTS • SHARON VAN ETTEN made her name turning bad times and worse guys into great songs. Luckily for us, she can still locate the “intensity” and the “demons” in parenthood and a caring relationship. Just no-one tell her mother. “I’m not completely dark,” she assures VICTORIA SEGAL. “I’m just darkish.”

LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD • Sharon Van Etten’s volleys of song. Victoria Segal ducks and covers.

THE MANCUNIAN CANDIDATES • MAGAZINE’S EXISTENTIAL SOUNDTRACKS HAD FRONTMAN HOWARD DEVOTO ACCLAIMED AS ‘THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN ALIVE’, YET THEY’RE OFTEN REDACTED FROM POST-PUNK’S OFFICIAL HISTORY. AS A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE GROUP’S TRAGIC-GENIUS GUITARIST JOHN McGEOCH EMERGES, DEVOTO AND THE GROUP’S...