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...

GLAM NUGGETS • 15 WHAM BAM RARITIES FROM THE BOOGIE CHILDREN!

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. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

Both Ends Burning • An autumn tour, 50th birthday frolics, and a book of singer Bryan Ferry’s lyrics: it’s all go for Roxy Music.

IDAHO INDIE-STARGAZERS BUILT TO SPILL GO BRAZILIAN FOR LP 10

ALSO WORKING

DARLENE LOVE • The singer with The Blossoms, The Crystals and more talks Elvis, Lethal Weapon and Phil Spector.

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

ROLL UP! FOR WEED BY GEORGE AND OTHER ROCK TOKERS

STILL RIGHTEOUS, ALMOST-STONE GUITAR GENIUS HARVEY MANDEL PLAYS ON

MANDEL HEALTH • Harvey’s divine trinity.

Deutsche Wall • Beachtung! For a wild new book of vintage German rock posters.

FIFTY YEARS ON, THE INSPIRATIONAL SECOND COMING OF URAL THOMAS, PORTLAND’S PILLAR OF SOUL

L.A. BAROQUE POP AUTEUR ALEX IZENBERG FEASTS ON LARKS’ TONGUES!

MOJO PLAYLIST • Time for the month’s best garage fuzz, folk-dub and rock drive.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Think you know Robert Fripp? Then who is this mohawked imp in a tutu, who performs pas de deux on YouTube and says he “hated” King Crimson? And what was that about The Damned!? “I do believe I mooned them…”

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Guitar King: Fripp’s fantastic trip.

REGENCY PERIODS • Fripp beyond and between King Crimson, cherry-picked by Tom Doyle.

TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN’ • Too punk for Muscle Shoals. Too country for most other places. Too drunk, too often. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS have forged on through lifestyle meltdowns, line-up turmoil and (at least) three divorces to deliver their uniquely lyrical blend of Southern Americana. Their fuel? Tough love for their homeland and cast-iron belief in their songs. “We had to be all in, ” they tell ANDY FYFE.

DECONSTRUCTION OF THE FABLES • The pick of DBTs’ albums so far, by ANDY FYFE.

WARNING! ADULT MATERIAL • CONTRACTUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY FREE FROM THE MOTOWN MACHINE, HOLED UP WITH TWO SWITCHED-ON BOFFINS AND THEIR MEGASYNTHESIZER, SCEVIE WONDER TURNED 21 WITH AN EXPLOSIVE BOUNTY OF SONGS AND TWO INCREDIBLE ALBUMS IN A SEISMIC 1972: MUSIC OF MY MIND AND TALKING BOOK. “IT WAS LIKE KRAKATOA!” HEARS BILL DEMAIN.

SOUL SURVIVORS • WONDER’S TOUR WITH THE ROLLING STONES IN 1972 WAS “LIKE BEING IN THE SPIN CYCLE OF A DRYER”-BUT IT PAID OFF, HEARS

MOJO PRESENTS • Amongst the vines and coyote dens of north JOAN SHELLEY’s Kentucky, graceful, folk-adjacent songs take shape, but think twice before imagining her a pedlar of winsome pastoralia. Seven albums in, her feel for life’s nuance is fuller than ever. “I don’t want to be fooled by the romance, ” she tells JOHN MULVEY.

ST. JOAN • Joan Shelley, by her accomplished admirers.

SOME VELVET MORNING • New light on the dawn of THE VELVET URDERGROURD is shed by lost...