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...

THE SPRINGSTEEN SONGBOOK

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

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Theories, rants, etc.

Cometh The Power • Fifty years on from Iggy & The Stooges at King’s Cross, Alec Byrne’s unseen images of the night.

COMIN’ SOON – DR. JOHN’S POSTHUMOUS VENTURE INTO COUNTRY ‘FONK’

GIMME FIVE… POTATO SONGS

GRAHAM COXON AND ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL RIDE THE WAEVE

ALSO WORKING

TOM PAXTON • The Greenwich Village elder talks miracles, Phil Ochs and why the music never stops.

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

AFTER MACCA’S HIT-PACKED GLASTONBURY, WHICH FABS SONGS HAVEN’T BEEN PLAYED?

VOX CONTINENTAL KING AND SESSION ACE AUGIE MEYERS PUSHES ON

AUGIEORGY! • Meyers’ three of the best.

JUMPSTART THE LOWRIDER! THEE SACRED SOULS HOTWIRE CHICANO SOUL FOR THE 2020s.

FROM FIDDLES TO FALCONRY – AMANDA SHIRES PREYS ON COUNTRY STEREOTYPES

MOJO PLAYLIST • Get down! For the best lowlands rock, monorail twang and electro.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • With Pentangle, Nick Drake and John Martyn, he marked out virgin territory, before booze and the black dog bit. At 83, Battersea’s bass explorer has some ‘plonks’ left in him – but in what genre? “I’ve got no prejudices about music at all,” says Danny Thompson.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Paul Weller on the wonders of Danny Thompson.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Bass face:Danny through the years.

WHAT A PLONKER! • Three hits of Danny Thompson, by Tom Doyle.

IDYLLS OF THE KING • ALFRED WERTHEIMER’S CLASSIC IMAGES OF ELVIS IN 1956 HAVE BEEN HAILED AS SOME OF THE GREATEST ROCK’N’ROLL PHOTGRAPHS EVER. NOW A REMARKABLE NEW BOOK COLLECTS THE BEST OF THEM; “I WANTED TO BE LIKE A GOOD PSYCHIATRIST, ” WERTHEIMER MUSED. “WITH A CAMERA.”

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT • In The Runaways and with The Blackhearts, JOAN JETT fought for a woman’s right to rock. In 2022, disquiet over one man’s role in her rise casts a shadow, but should not tarnish her victories. “For women, it’s a no-win, ” she tells VICTORIA SEGAL. “You’ve got to make your own rules and follow them.”

QUEEN OF NOISE • JOAN JETT’s key albums, by VICTORIA SEGAL.

A HISTORY OF VIOLINS • In 1982, Too-Rye-Ay marked DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS’ commercial peak. Soulful, irresistible, lucrative, nonetheless it left mainman KEVIN ROWLAND with deep misgivings, over its mix and its authorship. Resolving both has taken 40 years of pain and soul-searching. “I can move on, finally, ” he tells TED KESSLER.

“HEY, DOES ANYONE REMEMBER ’82?”

MOJO PRESENTS • ‘Rapper’s Rapper Meets Super Producer!’ reads like a recipe for anticlimax. But DANGER MOUSE and BLACK THOUGHT’s Cheat Codes team-up, arinading for 16 years, is the hip-hop chef d’oeuvre that reinvents old-school classicism for 2022. “You’re who this record is for!” they assure DORIAN LYNSKEY.

TEAM GOALS • Danger Mouse and Black Thought: the path to Cheat Codes, by Dorian Lynskey.

FIRE IN BABYLON...