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.

Why Can’t I Be you? • MOJO PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO THE CORE

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. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

Future Legend • Five years have passed since we said goodbye. But where next for David Bowie in 2021?

GIMME FIVE... BLUES THINGS

POWER UP – ALYNDA SEGARRA IS BACK WITH HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF’S SEVENTH LP

ALSO WORKING

DANIEL LANOIS • The Eno/Dylan/U2 collaborator talks gospel, curation and change.

IDLES, NUMAN AND MORE PAY TRIBUTE TO ANDY GILL AND GANG OF FOUR

Cathal Coughlan • Microdisney maverick lauds Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight’s Once In A Blue Moon (Topic, 1996)

AFTER DECADES IN THE WILDERNESS, SOUTHERN SOUL SURVIVOR DON BRYANT GETS HIS SHOT

BRYANT STORM! • Don’s triple threat.

Havana Rave Up! • The Soul Jazz label digs deep into the world of Revolutionary Cuban LP Art.

FORTUNATE SONS! JOHN FOGERTY’S BOYS ESCAPE THE FACTORY TO FORM HEARTY HAR

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up! It’s soul, techno and trash-rock time.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Their harmonies glowed golden over eclectic decades of pop pre-eminence. But for big brother ‘Bazza’, the Bee Gees’ sad depletion has made fame less sweet and solo flight more daunting. “There’s nothing more important than your family,” says Barry Gibb.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Be a brother: Barry Gibb, Bee Gee.

THREE BY THREE • Selections of prime Gibb, served by Jim Irvin.

ANY WOMAN’S BLUES • THE VOICE OF BESSIE SMITH, CARVED IN WAX NEARLY A CENTURY AGO, HITS US TODAY AS RAW AND TRUE AS IF IT WERE CAPTURED YESTERDAY. IN A NEW BOOK EXTRACTED HERE, SCOTTISH POET JACKIE KAY STEPS INTO THE SHOES OF THE PHENOMENON THEY CALLED THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, RELIVING HER TRIUMPHS, HER TRIALS, AND THE RECORDINGS THAT PRESERVE HER IRREPRESSIBLE LIFE-FORCE: “IT IS NOT IN ANY WAY THE VOICE OF A VICTIM.”

“THERE’S A STRENGTH IN HER SADNESS” • 21st century blueswoman SHEMEKIA COPELAND shares her five favourite Bessie Smith recordings…

SUPER FREAKS! • Scourge of demons, cops and Tony Blackburn, compadres of Hell’s Angels and student firebrands, THE EDBAR BROUGHTON BHRD said Up Yours to the ’60s establishment with songs about psychos and kaftans made by their mum. As a career-spanning box set looms, ANDREW MALE finds them as fiery as ever: “We always needed Someone or something to kick up the ass.” Portrait by ADRIAN BOOT.

ELECTRIC CITIZENS • Four albums that will have you speaking Broughton in no time. By ANDREW make.

MOJO PRESENTS • Guitar! Sax! Shouting! BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD are the seven-piece “raging beast” who mash up rock’s past while satirising our digital present, their slowburning jams fuelled by a mercurial mix of self-laceration and “love for each other”. “Like Fleetwood Mac, basically,” they tell VICTORIA SEGAL.

REFERENCES! REFERENCES! REFERENCES! • A partial guide to the pantheon of Black Country,...