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...

Depeche Mode

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

Colophon

Lightning Striking Itself • Television’s guitar thaumaturge Tom Verlaine left us on January 28. David Fricke says goodbye.

Hear No Evil • From clamour to swoon, and dissolution to revelation, Tom Verlaine’s adventures on record.

Rickie Lee Jones • The rock, R&B and jazz boho talks about opening up, piracy, adventure and Henry VIII.

NOEL GALLAGHER LOOKS TO THE COUNCIL SKIES. PLUS! THE CURE AND PET SHOP BOYS?

STEVEN WILSON’S SEVENTH IS… THE HARMONY CODEX

MACCA’S FABS PHOTO ARCHIVE – LOST FOR 60 YEARS – IS COMING

Stewart Copeland • The Police drummer recalls the awesome power of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced (Track, 1967)

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S SINGER DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ RETURNS!

INTRODUCING KARA JACKSON, SOUTHERN FOLK’S EMERGING POET LAUREATE

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up! For the month’s best gothic folk, cocktail pop and brain-music.

NEW SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS JAMES BRANDON LEWIS KEEPS THE WORLD IN BALANCE

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • How Sleaford Mods’ one-man Wu-Tang Clan and bard of Broken Britain brought belligerence back, along with himself, from the brink of bitter irrelevance. “It’s my way of getting the last word in,” says Jason Williamson.

Final Flute • With his sharp tongue and gossamer voice, huge appetites and high ideals, lent beauty and edge to every band he was in: The Byrds, CSNY, and more. We pay tribute with a celebration of 20 of his greatest songs and a fix of his mercurial spirit from a funny, scathing, poignant, recent encounter with MOJO. But first, some words from John Hulvey

The Old Deuil • In 2018, when he last sat down for an in-depth chat with MOJO, Dauid Crosby was on a roll. Writing well, singing great, and - a constant over 50-odd years of fame and (mixed) fortune -pulling no punches. “I’m not going to shut up,” he told Dave Di Hartino.

MOJO PRESENTS • After decades of toiling in the shadows, ROGÊ is the artist taking classic Brazilian music into the future, and he’s bringing cratedigger’s talisman/ genius arranger Arthur Verocai with him. Prophets ignored in their own land? Maybe not for much longer. “This is just the beginning,” they tell DAVID HUTCHEON.

a mighty good road • Van Morrison has swapped Covid grumbling for freight trains rumbling, revisiting the UK skiffle boom that gave him his start. And who better to accompany him on his journey through the punk of its day than skiffle scholar Billy Bragg ? “Soon as I heard Rock Island Line I immediately identified with it,” Van tells him. “It was like Lonnie Donegan just opened this door.” Portraits by Tom Sheehan.

when’s me washboard? • 10 skiffle records that get the joint...