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…

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS • CLASSIC LIVE. RARE 1984-2024

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

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Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication. Write to us at: MOJO, H Bauer Publishing, The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PL. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

It Hurts To Say Goodbye • Françoise Hardy, icon of French music, left us on June 11. David Hutcheon bids adieu.

Hardy Perennials • Fantastic Françoise, in five.

SYD’S MADCAP FLOORBOARDS SOLD AT AUCTION! BUT HOW?

INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE SPARKS DROP LP 26 HINTS

Moon Unit Zappa • Frank’s eldest talks Dad, family and “spelunking in hell” for her memoir.

Jody Stephens • Big Star’s drummer remembers the world stopping for Meet The Beatles! (Capitol, 1964).

NEW COSTELLO MUSICAL A FACE IN THE CROWD ARRIVES

BRAZILIAN LEGEND MILTON NASCIMENTO, STILL DREAMING IN HARMONY

The Look Of Soul • David Corio’s The Black Chord chronicles the giants of funk, reggae, rap and more.

MEET WAND, THE L.A. PSYCHEDELICISTS HUNTING FOR THE NOTES THAT DON’T EXIST…

STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH SOUTHERN ROCK SAVIOURS THE RED CLAY STRAYS

MOJO PLAYLIST • Get set! For the month’s Afrobeat, pirate breaks and big riffs.

3 ISSUES OF MOJO FOR £5*

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Scenester-savant, peerless producer of folk-rock and more, and now author of the War And Peace of world music, a philosopher of pop guides us through seven decades of sound. “I wanted to be the perfect listener,” says Joe Boyd.

PAPA DON'T TAKE NO MESS

AN AUDIENCE WITH THE GODFATHER

MOJO PRESENTS • New York’s CASSANDRA JENKINS grapples with the complexities of life, death, the universe and everything on quirky, melodic, meticulously artworked LPs that encompass jazz and ’90s grunge-pop. But her sophistication, she insists, is rooted in the fundamentals. “I just want to love and be loved,” she tells VICTORIA SEGAL.

JENKINS EARWORMS • Four key albums assayed by Victoria Segal.

The MAYOR of CROOVESUILLE

A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN • turned the ’80s Upside Down with some of the most thrilling and provocative music of the era. But what really went on behind the overgrown coiffs and sullen stares of the brothers Reid was anyone’s guess – until now. In an extract from their eye-opening upcoming memoir, they relive the watershed year of 1985 – the year of their epochal PSYCHOCANDY LP, and a whirlwind of hope, hype, dysfunction and violence.

ANARCHY IN N22 • Psychocandy producer JOHN LODER, as remembered by Crass drummer/ideologue, Penny Rimbaud.

POETRY IN MOTION

GALEDONIA UBER ALLES

AVERAGE WHITE BAND PICK UP THE PIECES • Funk soul brothers from Dundee, they toiled in the London clubs before finding their chemistry in 1972. Then, playing with Bonnie Bramlett and Clapton brought them to the attention of Jerry Wexler and...