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.

BOB DYLAN

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

Theories, rants, etc.

Nobody Ain’t Special • The unique voice of The Specials and beyond, Terry Hall left us on December 18.

…And Start Stomping

PAUL SIMONON AND GALEN AYERS SING PAN-EUROPEAN HARMONIES… WITH DAMON ALBARN AND TONY VISCONTI

CANDI STATON • The soul legend talks Muscle Shoals, farewell tours and battling with the bottle.

LONDON BREW: MILES DAVIS’ FUSION LANDMARK RE-IMAGINED (BUT WHERE DO WESTLIFE FIT IN?)

Paul Hartnoll • Orbital’s electric auteur gives the anarchist salute to Crass’s Penis Envy (Crass Records, 1981).

STALWART PORTLAND INDIE FUNSTERS QUASI FIGHT BACK, AGAIN

Bring Back The Prints • Collected! Jay Blakesberg’s all-film archive of the Dead, Stones and beyond!

THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH! LUCRECIA DALT’S SCI-FI BOLEROS FROM COLOMBIA

MOJO PLAYLIST

MELBOURNE’S GENA ROSE BRUCE MAKES HER COUNTRY DREAMS A YTI A

White-bread b-boy turned mentor of legends, Rick Rubin’s road to all-round guru status is littered with platinum albums and (mostly) satisfied customers. Now he’s laid down his wisdom for the ages: “It’s the book I wish I’d had when I was 20.”

“Songwriting Is An Attempt At Hypnosis” • So says John Colo, The Velvet Underground’s creator of radical atmospheres turned unique, unpredictable songsmith.With a new album, Mercy, awash with guests, he explores collaboration with Lou, Nico and John Cage, and the strange forces at work in his music. “Sometimes the mystery is what gets you through,” he tells Andrew Male. Portrait by Valerie Macon

Surfing a career high, poised to bring her West Coast AM goth-folk reveries to UK stages next month, WEYES BLOOD’s stately Natalie Mering digs into her Pentecostal parentage, noise-rock baby steps, and ponders her destiny. “Maybe there was something inevitable about all this,” she says to BOB MEHR.

BORN TO BOOGIE • With the searing sizzle of his guitar and the seismic rumble of his voice,JOHN LEE HOOKER's blues were shaped by his struggle to get paid - at least, until Carlos Santana and Keith Richards intervened. Through it all, over 70 years of music, he remained serious, hilarious, inimitable. “Never knew anybody like that guy,” acolytes tell DAVE DIMARTION

THE QUEEN OF HOOKS • FLEETWOOD MAC’s not-so-secret weapon held the group together through breakups and freakouts, ruptures and reinventions, blizzards of drugs and booze, until even she could take no more. But without her voice, her songs, and her sanity, they were only ever half the band. MARK BLAKE pays tribute to CHRISTINE McVIE.

"YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER WE WERE ALL VERY HIGH" • IN 2017, CHRISTINE McVIE SAT WITH ANDREW MALE FOR THE MOJO INTERVIEW. HER WORDS ABOUT HER TIME IN ELEETWGDDMAC, AND ITS COST, WERE SOME OF THE MOST CANDID EVER UTTERED BY THE BAND...

POP GLAM RULES THE CHARTS • From ’72 to ’74, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro and Mud had 16 Top 10 singles, including such stomping Number 1s as Can The Can, Block Buster! and Tiger Feet. The common thread? Songwriting/production power duo Mike Chapman...