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...

STAX UNCOVERED!

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

With Hearts Full Of Soul… • …Clapton, Rod, Ronnie, Billy Gibbons and more pay tribute to the great Jeff Beck at the RAH.

A POGUE/KLF STONE AGE RAVE WITH HURDY-GURDY AND A COMET? HELLO, URBAN PSYCHO!

SHOEGAZE MOVERS SLOWDIVE RETURN FOR ALBUM FIVE

Marshall Chess • The Chicago blues label scion talks Howlin’ Wolf, the Stones and trouble every day.

PET SURROUND SOUNDS? THE BEACH BOYS’ MASTERWORK GOES IMMERSIVE

Wreckless Eric

FUTURIST ANOMALIES LANDSCAPE STIR AGAIN

COMING TO A FESTIVAL NEAR YOU: THE GHANAIAN GOSPEL ECSTASY OF ALOGTE OHO & HIS SOUNDS OF JOY

SAVE THE DATE! IT’S TIME FOR WEDNESDAY’S ELECTRIFYING OUTLAW SHOEGAZE

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Pugnacious pioneer of the folk revival ’til her voice faltered, she returned to carry its torch. But if her new LP is really her swan song, what wisdom does she pass on? “You just sing the song for its own sake,” says Shirley Collins.

None more Black • Of portentous lineage, Gigger Buttler wasBlack Sabbath’s secret weapon, an instinctive innovator and scribe of their seminal lyrics. But behind the doom and anguish of Sabbath's songs, and the slapstick comedy of their career, there brooded a man fighting for his sanity. "It was like this big black cloud came over me and I couldn't get away," he tells mark Blake.

BETTER BE GOOD TO ME • From a broken home, via enslavement to abusive bandleader husband Ike, to late-career vindication, TINA TURNER was a fighter with a voice that throbbed with her life force, and carried the struggles and stories of us all. “Nobody was better in terms of interpreting a song,” discovers VICTORIA SEGAL

MOJO PRESENTS • Touring the States with Fontaines D.C., singer GRIAN CHATTEN lost the plot. Finding it again involved writing an “angry, bitter” song cycle based in an Irish seaside town. But is his first solo album a good or bad omen for his bandmates? “Things got very intense,” he tells TED KESSLER.

YOU GOT ME HUMMIN' • Who knew that in the mountain of snogs Stax Records didn't put out were many as great as those they did? Ouly their writers - until now. This month, a brand new seven-disc box set of unreleased demos and overlooked songs sheds extraordinary new light on memphis's soul explosion, and its prime movers. "Everybody at Stax was there for one reason," they tell Bill DeMain:"to get ahit record!"

ARE YOU HAVING ANY FUN? • Songs and sketches newly emerged from the locked vault of VIVIAN STANSHALL offer new reasons to join the BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND one-off’s silly cult. But, as friends and family reveal, behind the hilarity and eccentricity hid a conflicted man transfixed by “foul yellow fright” and addicted to self-sabotage. “He didn’t know...