In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Mojo

• A Man Of Wealth And Taste
  THE BRIAN JONES COMPANION
• ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
  THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…
• The Return Of Ringo
  Get 2025 rolling with a new Starr album – country-style.
• MOJO PLAYLIST
  Dig the month’s new-old soul, guitar battles and festive woe.
• THE MOJO INTERVIEW
  Homophobia, self-hate and obscurity were his foes until Queen Of Denmark raised him up. A fêted oeuvre of psychic unburdening has since flowered, but success has proved no panacea: “It’s a very distorted view of reality,” says John Grant.
• CANDID FRUITS
  Three shots from Grant’s full-disclosure canon, by Victoria Segal.
• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
  A collection of early Phil Lynott demos, newly embroidered by original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell, brings a new focus to the Rocker’s early years. Friends and bandmates remember a wounded romantic and frustrated writer, slowly donning to be a great Trish poet,” they tell James McNair.
• LIZZY UNPLUGGED!
  The new Thin Lizzy Acoustic Sessions album remainds Eric Bell of Phil Lynott’s “more sensitive side”, reports James McNair.
• MOJO PRESENTS
  In ’70s Nigeria, the LIJADU SISTERS were an anomaly – independent singer-songwriters standing up to a corrupt government and chauvinist musos. Now their visionary grooves are being rediscovered and, reports DAVID HUTCHEON, rightly celebrated at last. “We were ahead of everybody and we were women,” says TAIWO LIJADU.
• FELA TRAVELLERS
  Your next four Nigerian discoveries, suggested by David Hutcheon.
• ACURSE AGAINST ELEGIES
  MANIC STREET PREACHERS have survived tragic loss, cultural upheaval and relentless self-scrutiny to arrive at a fifteenth album that acknowledges their precarious place in the world. Other rock bands wouldn’t be as exacting, but they are not other rock bands. “We’ve never, ever allowed ourselves to be deluded,” they tell DORIAN LYNSKEY.
• “A RUSH OF DESPERATE EMOTION”
  JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD and NICKY WIRE on the ’80s LPs still in their DNA.
• MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU
  Celebrating 60 years since their formation, THE DOORS unveil Night Divides The Day, a whopping 344-page slab of text and photographs, many unseen, reflecting every stage of their career. Affording MOJO a sneak peek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger offer their thoughts. “We want people to feel how it really was,” they tell DANNY ECCLESTON.
• AMERICA RIDE A HORSE WITH NO NAME
  US army brats loose in London’s late-1960s underground, America practised CSN-style harmonies in a Morris Minor and pined for the desert. When they cut their hypnotic signature song – was it about smack? – they were off, with a UK Number 3 and a US Number 1. Then a deal with Neil Young’s management ended the band’s British idyll. “We were three guys with acoustic guitars,” say the band and associates, “[but] the biggest plane in the airport swooped in and picked us up…”
• THE FUTURE, C’EST MOI
  It’s been a busy annee for JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, winning Olympic laurels and ending with an anniversary reboot for his pioneering Zoolook LP.But, as ussal, electronica’s Oxygene auteur is looking not back, but forward - to music innovation drivan by VR and AI. "That’s what i like about this moment," he tells MARK BLAKE, “because we don't know what’s coming next”.
• SCIENCE FARE
  Six giant leaps by JEAN-MICHEL JARRE.
• BLOOD BROTHERS?
  In 1969, THE ROLLING STONES lost a founder member and the ’60s, notoriously, lost its innocence. But as the band’s reputation grew darker, and the bonds between them were tested by infidelity and ambition, their music hit new heights of soulful power – sped by the recruitment of a next-level guitarist, and encapsulated on Let It Bleed. “That was the period when the player was as big as the song,”
• 88s AND HEARTBREAK
  From Let It Bleed’s Monkey Man to Lennon’s Jealous Guy and beyond, magical keysman NICKY HOPKINS battled lifelong illness to blend the blues with the baroque. As a new film explores his life and work, his famous fans offer thanks and praise. “We’re talking about a genius here,” they tell MARK PAYTRESS.
• ANGELIC UPSTART
  He looked like butter wouldn’t melt, but when MICK TAYLOR joined the Stones in mid-’69, he was already a guitarist of rare style, scope and confidence, writes MARK BLAKE.
• Mortal combat
  Eco-friendly auteur documents her journey back from the frayed edge.
• “I don’t do music for escapism.”
  Tamara Lindeman speaks to Jim Wirth.
• Ex induction hour
  A bracing grunge-pop classic from The Tubs’ twin band.
• Roots manoeuvre
  The Saharan blues get Mali’s best rock band back on track.
• Read & burn
  Mogwai’s graceful eleventh album, forged in hellish circumstance.
• Rhyme and reason
  Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan re-imagine their proto-rap landmarks alongside Tony Allen, Courtney Pine and more.
• Never enough
  Nineteen discs of the New York singer-songwriter showcase her embarrassment of riches.
• Blackbeard magic
  Rare dubs, roots and lovers rock from the British reggae legend.
• More cowbell!
  Frequent use of Latin percussion, harmonica and light-hearted lyrics meant War had broken out.
• Another Country
  This month’s rediscovered jewel: a honky-tonk hipster classic, now with a second life.
• Charles Mingus
  The great jazz bassist and anarchic genius.
• How great thou art
  The stories of Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, Big Mama Thornton and more move Danny Eccleston.
• Expecting to fly
  Long-overdue documentary on the extraordinary life and art of the late singer-songwriter.
• The Dude
  An all round force of musical nature, we lost Quincy Jones on November 3.
• “Tis the season to be entertained!”
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• Can’t Explain
  Shel Talmy, legendary producer of The Kinks, The Who and more, left us on November 13.
• Searching for the sound
  Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s eternally questing bassist, left us on October 25.
• What were the strangest lyric rewrites?
  Let us solve rock conundrums and join the dots of musical obscuria.
• ’Phones Free
  Win! Fine IO-8 headphones from DALI.
• Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas
  It began as business. After transatlantic fame in the early ’60s, it ended before it could get physical.