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...

The World’s Behind You • Starring LOU REED, JOHN CALE, NICO, SPIRITUALIZED, THE SEEDS, BO DIDDLEY, ORNETTE COLEMAN, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & MORE

ALL BACK TO MY PL ACE • 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

Picture This • See ravishing, rare images of Debbie.Jimi and more inTerence Donovan: One Hundred Faces.

QUACK! IT’S NEIL YOUNG’S ’77 SANTA CRUZ BAR BAND THE DUCKS. BUT HOW?

DEXYS RETURN WITH THE FEMININE DIVINE

ANDREW LAUDER • The legendary A&R man talks about the psych/pub rock/punk ’70s, The Stone Roses, and missing the Fabs’ last gig.

David Thomas • Pere Ubu’s trenchant mastermind considers the majesty of Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle (Warner Bros, 1967)

MEMPHIS AND NEW ORLEANS SOUL-FUNK ROYALTY, IN EAST ANGLIA?

’60s FACE AND IMPROV EMINENCE JULIE TIPPETTS FORGES ON

Lukas Nelson & Potr

MEET THE TUBS, BUZZSAW FOLK ROCKERS WITH A FINE LINE IN DIRTY LAUNDRY

FETED BY BOB DYLAN AND BILL CALLAHAN, SARABETH TUCEK RETURNS AT LAST – AS SBT!

MOJO PLAYLIST • The month’s best organic funk, garage pop and molten bossa.

The Clash’s bass smasher and style icon on reggae roots, punk violence, jail in Greenland and his quirky new album. But why do we never see him at award ceremonies? “I don’t want a pat on the back,” insists Paul Simonon.

SOLDIER of the HEART • Junkie, jailbird, genius: tragic JUDEE SILL loved hard, lived fast and wrote songs like no one else. As a film about her life looks set to hip a whole new audience, friends and lovers help MOJO tell her story. “She liked the edge,” they tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. “She just went over.”

THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS’ TIME HAS COME TODAY • Family harmonisers from the Deep South, they sang for Superman, played with Lightnin’ Hopkins and met electric Dylan at Newport. Mixing the blues, folk and rock’n’roll, the racially mixed group duly achieved nirvana with 1968’s Number 11 US hit Time Has Come Today, an 11-minute acid-soul call-to-arms which declared “my soul has been psychedelicised.” Then, the hippy dream faded and the Mob moved in. “We were putting everything into it,” the band and their intimates tell MOJO. “We knew it would be remembered for ever.”

MOMENTS OF TRUTH • JASON ISBELL'S new album combines fears for America with lessons learned from sobriety and Scorsese. Its songs about abortion and activism, bad love and loneliness, have driven him to painful places - but, as he tells GRAYSON HAVER CƯRRIN, that’s where the real stories are: “What’s the point of all this if you’re not terrified?”

the world turned upside down • In 1963, The Beatles a force that remade pop, and Britain, in an instant. Sixty years on, their subversive spirit shines through the maelstrom of incandescent fans, outraged MPs and hyperbolic media. And their records...