MARK E SMITH The artist behind the controversialist, hymned and mourned by bandmates from every era of the mighty Fall. Plus: MOJO’s mixtape of classic and deep Fall cuts.

JONATHAN WILSON The go-to guy for guitar and neo-classic rock productions survived setbacks and drive-bys before coming into his own on a thrilling third solo album..

JOHN SEBASTIAN - How The Lovin’ Spoonful’s jug band philosopher missed the gravy train but regrets rien.

CASS McCOMBS - Modern singer-songwriting’s great enigma reveals himself at last. “I knew I had to push myself to the limit,” he tells Bob Mehr..

THE MOODY BLUES How the besuited R&B Brummies broke down, crashed out, turned on, and blasted off on a fiveyear mission to boldly go where no rock band had gone before.

PERFORMANCE As the defining rock’n’roll movie turns 50, MOJO pays tribute to its director, Nic Roeg, with a revealing in-depth making-of, featuring Mick Jagger, James Fox and more...

VAN MORRISON - Who knew an audience with the Mardy Mystic could be such fun? Andrew Male scoots to Belfast to chat jazz and meditation.

ROSANNE CASH Johnny’s daughter, in Confidential mode, talks punk rock, concept albums and how she likes, well, adolescent humour..

LAMONT DOZIER - How sneaky nights at the “No-Tell Motel” fuelled the Motown songmaster’s best ideas, before Berry Gordy turned the heat up too high.

THE HOUSE OF LOVE They were ’80s indie’s great hopes, until the madness. But there was an upside: “Stadium success would have killed us all.”

SARATHY KORWAR The Rising Indian percussionist taking jazz further east talks conversations, chemistry and Coltrane..

BLONDIE’S NEW YORK Chris Stein presents a portfolio of photographs from the dawn of Gotham punk: Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, burnt-out cars and more!

THE BEATLES Double trouble? White mischief? Or a post- Indian Summer of Fabdom? A White Album redux with unreleased demos and outtakes proves too much of a good thing can be wonderful..

NILE RODGERS - The R&B magician behind Chic, Daft Punk, Let’s Dance and more on Roxy, Aretha, and cleaning Frank Sinatra’s plane!

MARIANNE FAITHFULL Love and loss are the big themes explored on the Diva of Dark’s 21st album. Kris Needs rides shotgun throughout its writing and recording..

OHN McLAUGHLIN How he remade guitar-playing with Miles Davis and The Mahavisnhu Orchestra, found inner peace, but kind of bungled that jam with Jimi.

PAUL WELLER Celebrating King Mod at 60, unplugged but unbowed, with input from key allies. On the menu: class, culture, Val Doonican and more..

OH SEES John Dwyer’s epic psych odyssey achieves critical mass. Tell the Stones there’s a new Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band in town.

DAVID BOWIE The Dame’s rollercoaster ride to fame and riches, weirdness and regret, 35 years on. With Nile Rodgers, Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar and more...

DAMO SUZUKI - Can’s vocal vortex on life-asimprov, rum contracts and Jürgen Klopp. “When by accident something happens,” he insists, “it’s more interesting than if you plan it.”

PAUL SIMON - How his visits to Britain between 1963 and 1965 are more significant than previously thought. Revelations courtesy of Robert Hilburn’s remarkable new biography..

GRACE SLICK Jefferson Airplane’s psychedelic siren on bedding the band and booting the booze, the music that soared and the records that stank. Warning: contains fun.

ARCTIC MONKEYS From Sheffield to… space? Alex Turner & Co celebrate a decade as Britain’s top band with a bold new album exploring exciting new territory. “There’ll be fans that will be a bit confused now,” they tell Danny Eccleston.

RY COODER - The wisdom of LA ’s slide guitar king. To wit: “Rock’n’roll in general is very distorting – it’s like a mirror in a funhouse.”

YES Over half a century, the caped crusaders of prog have solo’d through triumph, tragedy, and line-up changes. Yes’s latest twist? There’s now two of them..

YOUNG FATHERS Categorydefying Edinburgh rappers return to assault the mainstream. “We’re weird, but that’s something to aspire to.”

NICK DRAKE In the year of his 70th birthday, MOJO explores the short life and profound songs of an enigmatic genius. Across 17 pages, friends and musicians remember the man behind the mystery..

THE BEATLES - The story of the fan club flexi discs the band made and posted every Christmas – poems, pantos, Tiny Tim and all.

TOM PETTY - Two months on from his death, The Heartbreakers talk to Sylvie Simmons about the unique qualities of their fallen leader..

JOSH HOMME - With another of MOJO’s Albums Of The Year on his résumé, the QOTSA riff machine rolls out  his worldview. “I’m looking for reality,” he tells Keith Cameron.

THE JAM The rise of The People’s Band, and the Mod renaissance they unleashed, by the ace faces who were there. Cue: life-changing shows and era-defining songs, haloed with a pop-art blur of ripped seats and smashed Rickenbackers, and all driven by “a raw sense of destiny”...

NADIA REID - Songs of honesty, sung with limpid beauty, have placed the New Zealander streets ahead of her fellow singer-songwriters. Ex-boyfriends beware…

THE YARDBIRDS - Jimmy Page scoured the vaults to find revelatory music from his formative group’s final year. “It was the blueprint for Led Zeppelin,” he tells MOJO...

TAJ MAHAL How Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Jr chased the blues all over the world, and why he’ll carry on: “What I’ve learned is that you never stop learning.”

TRICKY The godfather of trip -hop gets Confidential, talking about new sounds, why he admires Russian rappers and how getting famous makes you walk differently. Over the way in Last Night A Record Changed My Life, it’s Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the genius of Stevie Ray Vaughan..

SPARKS The sibling sorcerers of deadpan panstick rock and pop retur with the familiar parade of eccentricities. “The mission is unspoken but clear,” they insist.

DAVE GROHL From Scream and Nirvana to Foo Fighters, Grohl has never lost his fire and fandom, but you’ll be surprised by some of the songs that sustain him. Plus: the 1992 Reading Festival was Nirvana’s UK swan song. Matt Allen talks to witnesses...

BRIAN GRIFFIN You know his eradefining early ’80s covers for Depeche Mode and Echo & The Bunnymen. Now the snapper returns with a career-spanning photobook, and unseen images of Iggy, Costello and Kate Bush.

REISSUES Fairport Convention’s first flush is anthologised, Yoko Ono’s feminist diktats are re-appraised, and Bowie cracks.

ROGER WATERS - Pink Floyd’s Gob Almighty unveils his first solo album for 20 years. Cue arm-wrestling with Nigel Godrich, love-life revelations and a little bit of politics.

JIMI HENDRIX - Fifty years after his stratospheric breakthrough, MOJO explores the 27 songs – one for each year of his life – that define Jimi’s sonic revolution, to offer a rare glimpse inside his studio world. “The rules were there were no rules,” discovers Mat Snow.

30 Years Inside The Bad Seeds.

Elton john 1970 HIS YEAR OF TRIUMPH

CHRISTINE McVIE Fleetwood Mac’s “prodigal daughter” is back for the MOJO Interview: lost on stage with Chicken Shack; “therapy” with the Mac.

THE WATERBOYSHoled up in his Puck Towers studio in Dublin, Mike Scott brings word on his storied group’s twelfth.

JEFF BUCKLEY Twenty years since his death, the poet-rocker’s friends and colleagues on a talent curtailed as he planned an album “that would scare people”.

PRINCE A glimpse of the man – funny, childlike, tragic – behind the legend with Paisley Park photographer Steve Parke: “With Prince, you learned not to say, We can’t do that.”

PINK FLOYD Roger Waters helps MOJO celebrate 40 Years Of The Pig as Mark Blake reports on the group’s angriest album, Animals, while Jim Irvin has the inside story on the V&A’s Floyd exhibition, the largest it has ever staged..

RIDE - Their collapse in ’96 was not terrific. But Oxford’s reunited shoegazing psych-rockers have vowed to rectify that. We join them in the studio for a pre-mixdown preview of their new LP

THE RESIDENTS - Want to find out what inspirational tunes echo within those unnerving yet enticing giant eyeballs they use for heads? Then you’ve come to the right place!

HELLO GOODBYE Slim Jim Phantom rocked this town – and many others – with The Stray Cats. But what went wrong?.

REISSUES Ian Hunter’s 30-disc whopper, James Brown’s modest vinyl, plus Louis Jordan, Grateful Dead, T.Rex, Gillian Welch, and more.

NO WAVE James Chance, Lydia Lunch and more remember when New York crumbled and they composed the feral, chaotic soundtrack. “It had to be brutal,” they tell Andrew Male.

THE MOONLANDINGZ The reality-subverting glam-synth supergroup are certainly Rising, but is it healthy? Involves Fat White Family, Yoko Ono and Fat Truckers – and the shocking misuse of Warburtons bread.

NEW ALBUMS Michael Chapman hits 50 at 75, plus The xx, Julie Byrne and more...

ALEXANDRA SAVIOR Colliding - with Alex Turner, a desert mysteriosa with a captivating voice shakes off other people’s shackles and gets on with the business of rising.

REISSUES Chris Wood compiled; Prince unearthed; John Cale, The Who, Crowded House, Sonny Burgess, XTC, Norse jazz… and Gillan!.

ALEXANDRA SAVIOR Colliding with Alex Turner, a desert mysteriosa with a captivating voice shakes off other people’s shackles and gets on with the business of risin

ROY HARPER - Dragged through hell and the courts, the sui generis acoustic warrior fights back. “It’s been the worst time of my life,” he tells Mark Blake.

THE 2-TONE TOUR, ’79 When The Specials, Madness and The Selecter hit the road en masse, the nation’s concert halls barely survived the experience. Jerry Dammers talks fraternity, anti-racism and collapsing stages.

GRANDADDYThey’ve been playing live again since 2012, but it’s only now that mainbrain Jason Lytle has seen fit to get back in the studio. What’s he building in there?

REISSUES Take two PiLs, a Dan Penn, seven Ray Charles’s, a big box of Crudup, Bowie’s, Gouster and sing from Randy’s Songbook..

DE LA SOUL How three young Amityville kids revolutionised hip-hop (and sampling) then killed it all off. Death is not the end, hears Andy Cowan.

MICK JONESThe Clash’s stellar guitar reflects awhile on his Mindblowers, and shows how he got to where he is today. Includes free jamming, NY hip-hop and ’60s garage punk.

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MOJO Magazine - Issue 293

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