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...

US AND THEM A PINK FLOYD COMPANION

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

Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication. Write to us at: MOJO, Bauer Media Publishing, The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PL. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

All The People… • Next summer, say Blur, things appear to be going a bit 1995.

Will 2023 finally bring a new Stones album?

Flashback! With Teardrop Explodes box Culture Bunker.

How deep is Bob Stanley’s love for the Bee Gees?

There’s a legendary Robert Johnson biography on your trail

Time Has Told… the official biography of Nick Drake

Bio-doc Why Should I Care? pursues the enigma of Alex Chilton

KING CRIMSON! BOWIE! GUITAR MAGUS ADRIAN BELEW SOUNDS OFF

IRISH POST-PUNKS THE MURDER CAPITAL PREPARE TO MAKE A DIFFERENT KIND OF KILLING

CLIMATE GRIEF, CHAMBER FOLK AND ANOTHER DESSNER… IT’S TIME FOR COMPLETE MOUNTAIN ALMANAC

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up – for the month’s best buzzpop, folk and Cumbia.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Brisbane’s bohemian king of lyrical intrigue choogles on, through the shadowed ruins of The Go-Betweens and current family adversity. What keeps him writing, singing? “As long as there’s more than 50 people listening, that’s all I need,” says Robert Forster.

I AM WHAT I AM • JERRY LEE LEWIS offerd no apologies for his life or for his art. Yet his incendiary rock and bewitching country classics were underscored with fears for his soul, while excess, scandal and tragedy dogged his every step.Intimidating and unknowable and, as fellow musicians relate, perhaps also a genius. He was one of the greatest singers eve, they remind BOB MEHR

X-RAY SPEX SAY OH BONDAGE UP YOURS! • Born in punk zero year ’76, POLY STYRENE’s retina-searing group had no truck with anything as boring as boredom, and instead unleashed joyous deconstructions of consumerism, artificiality and identity itself. But linchpin singer Styrene was too fragile for the music biz, and what should have been a pop phenomenon crashed in ’79. “She was close to the spirit of punk,” says friends and bandmates, “[but] like other geniuses, she was not quite connected to reality.”

1972 NUGGETS • From the year of Zigoy, Fxile, Harvest et al, 50 under-theradar albums that blew MOdO's writers' mingds, and could blow yours, too, if you're not carefull. From witchy prog to bitchin’ funk - it's all great in our crate. So let the digging commence!

Dancing in the Light • “SPANISH TONY” WAS THE ROLLING STONES’ ENIGMATIC FIXER IN THEIR YEARS OF PEAK DECADENCE, AN ERA HE DOCUMENTED IN RARELY SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS. AS HIS GRANDSONS REOPEN HIS ARCHIVE, MOJO IS GRANTED AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW, AND A NEW TAKE ON THE MYSTERIOUS SNAPPER. “HE WAS A LOVELY GUY ON A PERSONAL LEVEL,” HEARS ANDREW PERRY.

MOJO PRESENTS • Surviving meth hell and defying roots purists, BILLY STRINGS is the rocket-propelled picker blasting bluegrass into the future. Good news for...