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...

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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Theories, rants, etc.

Happy Birthday, Painter Man • Sgt. Pepper artist Sir Peter Blake is 90! Heavy friends prepare to celebrate, talk cover collaboration.

UNEARTHED! PETTY’S ’97 TREASURES WITH JOHN LEE HOOKER AND MORE…

INHALER

ALT-COUNTRY REAL-DEAL MARGO PRICE ’SHROOMS HER WAY TO LP FOUR

JOHNNY MARR • Manchester’s greatest living guitarist talks momentum, forbid-den visions and The Queen Is Dead.

Black Thought • The Roots’ rhyme technician hails Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988, Def Jam).

OUT OF THE TRASH, INTO THE MUSEUM – PUNK ROCK CEMENTS ITS ARTEFACT STATUS

INTUITIVE GREENWICH VILLAGE ALUMNUS ERIC ANDERSEN FORGES ON

Connection Is Made • The 1993-2012 music photography of Pat Pope, collected.

HOW RICH RUTH SURVIVED CARJACKINGS, TORNADOS AND GIANT BANDS TO ACHIEVE SOLO SPIRITUAL ASCENSION

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen! For the month’s best desert blues, post-punk and soul jazz.

SCOTT WALKER MEETS DUBSTEP? SUPPORT JOCKSTRAP, MUSIC SCHOOL DISRUPTERS!

Photocopier ink salesman turned art-funk prankster, his natty dreads and Muppet grin have been staples behind the faders for Dylan, the Stones and legends galore. So what has he learned? “You don’t control the lightning,” says Don Was.

THE BEST OF 2022 • It was the year the world woke up. There were gigs galore. Some – Macca at Glasto, the Stones in the Park, Joni at Newport, Dylan everywhere – epochal. The Queen passed. Ukraine resisted. Jazz transcended. In Britain, indie bit back. Over 29 pages, MOJO celebrates the music that meant most in 12 months of turmoil, and the notes of hope that kept us keepin’ on.

Never Mind The Bollocking • Colourful if controversial, Danny Boyle’s Pistol bio-series won over the sceptics… except one. “John probably felt it should have been his story,” the director tells Pat Gilbert.

From the Isle Of Wight to… the world? The droll punk of WET LEG’s debut album wowed their homeland in 2022. But winning over the Home Of Jazz? A step too far, too soon for our dynamic duo? “You have to learn to trust your gut,” they assure GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.

THE 75 BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

“He Never Stops And Just Fades Away” • Just two new albums and five meticulously curated archive releases in 12 months from the inexhaustible Neil Young. But what next? “We like being surprised,” Crazy Horse tell Chris Catchpole.

“It Felt Like I Was Released In Some Way” • Faith, Hope And Carnage, Nick Cave’s collection of lockdown interviews with Seán O’Hagan, filled eyes with tears and hearts with hope. But it wasn’t just about grief and loss and God and healing. As Cave tells Danny Eccleston, “Everything circles back to music.”

THE 75 BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

“We Were Watching With Our Minds Blown” • When Joni Mitchell appeared on-stage at the Newport Folk Festival in July, it was the culmination of years of encouragement, and is set to bear more extraordinary fruit in 2023. But...