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...

PINK FLOYD

THE KINKS • KOMPILED BY RAY DAV IE S, DAV E DAV IE S & MICK AVORY

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

This Is A Love Song • John Lydon speaks about Hawaii, caring for his wife Nora, and new Public Image Ltd album End Of World.

REBORN! DOLLY COLLINS’ LOST SECULAR MASS MISSA HUMANA

FROM DUBVILLE STUDIOS, YUSUF/CAT STEVENS BRINGS REDEMPTIVE LP 17

Feist • Canada’s veracious original talks war cries, the Arcade Fire situation and calling the gods.

Colin Blunstone

RECORD STORE DAY IS HERE AGAIN! BUT WHAT TO BUY?

BRISTOL ART-ROCKERS THE BLUE AEROPLANES SOAR AGAIN

IRISH FOLK SEER LISA O’NEILL TAKES THE UNLIKELY WALK OF LIFE

MOJO PLAYLIST

INTRODUCING SAM BURTON, THE LA SCENE’S TAROT-READING RHINESTONE COWBOY

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • U2’s sonic scientist has just reanimated 40 of their classic songs: the latest experiment in six decades of tinkering, questioning, taking it all quite seriously. “Being in a band, we didn’t want it to be a trivial thing,” says The Edge.

BROAQDWAY MELODIES • That’s Muswell Hill Broadway, of course: the birthplace, or thereabouts, of THE KINKS, 60 years ago. Time for rock’s least orthodox band to help celebrate 10 of their key kompositions: songs of lust and loss, fragility and despair, that remind them of good times and bad. “The emotions are so powerful,” they tell ANDREW MALE. “So varied."

YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE • Dependable foil to “unhappy” Chris Bell and “unpredictable” Alex Chilton, mainstay of multiple incarnations of BIG STAR, JODY STEPHENS has kept the band’s torch alight with poise and positivity, alongside roles as Ardent Studio CEO and one half of Those Pretty Wrongs. All this and nearly the drummer in Wings? “Fm a cup-half-full guy,” he tells BILL DEMAIN.

MOJO PRESENTS • Seems you can’t have a Grammys these days without AROOJ AFTAB, the transportational Pakistani singer melding jazz and Qawwali with spice of her own. But, with her star ascendant and a new trio album due, she’s wary of pressure on her to ‘represent’. “I’m not a pawn,” she assures VICTORIA SEGAL.

aint it acr punky now • A CERTAIN RATIO’s frosty Factory funk (and shorts) split the tribes of UK post-punk. But history and LCD Soundsystem were on their side. It’s over 40 years since their first single came in a “special limited edition of 1,000 on poor quality vinyl,” but some things haven’t changed. “We’re all crazy bastards, obviously,” they assure ANDREW PERRY.

Mr. SONG • One of the last great star songwriters, linking Milhaud and The Beatles, The Blob and Austin Powers, Burt Bacharach combined sparkling sophistication with a devastating emotional range, turning melodies that taught the world to sing and still amaze peers and devotees. “Burt was...