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 MEN AND WOMEN OF ROLLING THUNDER

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…

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Theories, rants, etc.

A Year In The Life • Gary Kemp opens Brian Epstein's address book for 1967, the Fabs, Swinging London and more.

A WORLD WHERE THE VELVETS WERE BIGGER THAN THE BEATLES? CHUCK KLOSTERMAN EXPLAINS

GIMME FIVE… CITY SONGS

SIMPLE MINDS RETURN! WITH 20TH ALBUM SACROSANCT

ALSO WORKING

Tony Iommi • Black Sabbath's mighty guitarist talks Ozzy, bagpipes and his archive of riffs.

Jake Xerxes Fussell • The folk/blues savant gives it up for Huayno Music Of Peru, Vols. 1 & 2 (Arhoolie, 1989).

A HUGE NEW SOFT MACHINE BOX? OUT-BLOODY-RAGEOUS!

LESS IS MORE! WITH ONE-ALBUM WONDER WILLIS ALAN RAMSEY

Smithsonian Dynamite • Saluted! Folkways Records sleeve designer Ronald Clyne.

NEW WINGS! NIGEL GODRICH AND DHANI HARRISON ARE DRAGONFLIES

LAEL NEALE LOCATES THE MAGICK AND WEIRDNESS OF MODERN LOS ANGELES

MOJO PLAYLIST • Open up! For acerbic boogie, breakbeat dub and punk scuzz.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • In the classic songs he’s penned with Elton John, his words conjure romance, humour and sadness. Now, on his new solo album, he’s writing the music, too. “I wanted it to be 100 per cent me,” says Bernie Taupin.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Elton John: in praise of his other ’alf.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Bernie’s in!: Taupin down the ages.

A LIFETIME AT BERNIE’S • Three great albums he (half-) wrote –

LOVE AND OT HER DISEASES • After divorce, and cancer, and complications from both, Josh Homme is leading QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE out of the Catacombs and into the light. On their new album, his songs embrace vuilnerability and imperfection, with a ’70s shimmy, but don’t think for a minute he’s lost his serrated edge. “I’m not really interested in being nice,” he tells TOM DOYLE.

STONE IDOLS • Five shapers of Perfecth’s imperfecth perfecthion.

THE RETURN OF THE KING • FORTY YEARS AGO, AFROBEAT ORIGINATOR FELA KUTI WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON IN NIGERIA, HAILED AS A HERO BY FREEDOM FANS WORLDWIDE. BUT, UNCOMPROMISING AS EVER, HE SCORNED THE DO-GOODING AMNESTY TOUR HE JOINED JUST AS HE BERATED THE MILITARY JUNTA THAT OPPRESSED HIS PEOPLE, AND THE MUSIC HE MADE IN HIS LAST DECADE SMOULDERED WITH SIMILAR DEFIANCE. “FELA WAS BIGGER THAN NATURE,” DISCOVERS GRAEME THOMSON.

“IT WAS PANDEMONIUM” • WALLY BADARDU ON PRODUCING THE UNPRODUCEABLE FELA KUTI.

MOJO PRESENTS • Hooked on electric Dylan, Link Wray and garage punk, TWISTED TEENS are two New Orleans buskers on an express train to fame. As their third album of 2026 arrives, and Jeff Tweedy covers their songs, they explain their mission to seize rock’n’roll back from the digital content creators. “That’s fried gold,” they tell BOB MEHR.

MISSING LINKS! • Twisted Teens reveal four key influences.

american psycho • alice cooper’s new memoir plays God-fearing Vincent...