In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Mojo

• HIGHER ROCK
  A ROBERT PLANT COMPILATION
• ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
  THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…
• Two Louder!
  British rock gods Spinal Tap return with new film The End Continues. David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls resume their yakkin’.
• Behind The Music
  He’s made albums with the Stones, Sir Elton, Iggy and more, but who exactly is go-to producer to the elite Andrew Watt?
• HIGH WATTAGE
  The gospel according to Andrew, in 10 chapters.
• DAVID GEDGE
  The Wedding Present’s leader talks 40-year anniversaries, his own rock musical, and not dyeing his hair.
• NEIL HANNON
  The Divine Comedy’s incurable romantic owes it all to The Human League’s Dare (Virgin, 1981).
• RANKING RANGLIN
  Deadly Ernest, in three solo helpings.
• THE MOJO INTERVIEW
  Behind the irresistible rise of his elegant folk-pop-soul lie identity crises and recurrent rejections. A new album reveals a bolder, “bolshier” artist, but still with much to prove. “I have to keep polishing my knives,” says Michael Kiwanuka.
• CHANGE AGENT
  Three phases of MK, examined by David Hutcheon.
• THE COMEBACK KID
  Over seemingly insurmountable obstacles, OZZY OSBOURNE dragged himself to the pinnacle of rock'n'roll. Haunted by rejection, raddled with substances, but also full of love, fun and a talent he couldn't describe or always understand, his victory was one of every underdog, everywhere. SYLIVIE SIMMONS watched it all unfold…
• OZZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL
  John Michael Osbourne at his best, in Sabbath and solo, by Mark Blake.
• MOJO PRESENTS
  West London flâneur BAXTER DURY has spent over 20 years grappling with the influence of his Blockhead father Ian. Now, as success brings him back to his father’s old stamping ground, has he finally come to terms with his chaotic boho upbringing? “I’m a mockney nepo Jane Austen in a male form,” he convinces VICTORIA SEGAL.
• DURY SERVICE
  How Baxter did it himself.
• THE ROAD WARRIOR
  1975 was JONI MITCHELL’s roller-coaster year: 12 months of romance and heartbreak, adventure and retreat, cocaine and Rolling Thunder. And in the middle of it, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, her doubling-down on jazz rhythms, exotic melodies and songwriting-as-literature, with (for now, at least) a simpatico crew in tow. “It was just a good vibe,” they tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. “And Joni was at the centre of it, at the peak of her powers.”
• A SWINGIN’ AFFAIR
  A sprawling new compilation of Mitchell’s most jazz-inspired work is short on rarities but steeped in her love, and supple definition, of the genre.
• HISSING COUSINS
  When jazz and pop and rock got it on, in the mid-’70s, in five albums…
• BUT NOT FOR ME
  MIKE TAYLOR was the most original voice in British jazz, a legend on the scene, an inspiration to Cream and the coming wave of prog. But his recordings are rare, his career curtailed by mental illness and a mysterious early death. New reissues of key works prove his genius, and remind peers and pals of their heartbreak. “The whole story is just so tragic,” they tell ANDREW MALE.
• A GREAT DAY IN HARLOW?
  ANDREW MALE selects five more great British jazz LPs crying out for vinyle reissue.
• REBEL MUSIC
  Fifty years ago, WILLIE NELSON up-ended the tyranny of the Nashville Sound with a record like nothing before or, perhaps, since. The road to Red Headed Stranger was long and uphill: strewn with broken marriages, record label wrangles and acts of God, but it transformed his fortunes, and his image. “It got to be a cool thing to like Willie,” discovers SYLVIE SIMMONS.
• STORYVILLE
  FOUR MORE COUNTRY CONCEPT ALBUMS, UNTANGLED BY SYLVIE SIMMONS.
• GARY NUMAN OPENS THE DOOR FOR SYNTH-POP
  He began leading London punks Tubeway Army but was diverted into brooding synth-rock by a stray Minimoog. Cue 1979’s mysterious monster hit Are ‘Friends’ Electric? and the adoration of superfans the Numanoids. Follow-up solo 45 Cars also hit Number 1, but soon GARY NUMAN dramatically retired from live performance at the height of his success. “A whole world descended on me,” he says. “I wanted to get out of the burning building…”
• BLACK COUNTRY ROCK
  From a home in England’s West Midlands, to Knebworth and Live Aid with Led Zep and back, via fame, fortune, tragedy and musical resurrection – ROBERT PLANT’s come full circle. A new album with local heroes Saving Grace exemplifies his hard rock apostasy, the reason he’d rather worship Nora Brown than hang with Axl Rose. And if all else fails? “I’ll just be an Elvis impersonator!” he tells KEITH CAMERON.
• PLANT FOOD
  The albums fuelling the musical furnace of Saving Grace.
• “THERE WAS THIS WONDERFUL CONNECTION”
  Plant’s co-singer SUZI DIAN relates the special chemistry and stealth gestation of Saving Grace to JAMES McNAIR.
• Forever Changes
  The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album.
• “Rock’n’roll’s so far beyond a genre.”
  Big Thief speak to Victoria Segal.
• Renaissance woman
  Seventh album from Welsh sonic sorcerer features John Cale and heartache-soothing FX balm.
• Faith and courage
  Outlaw country’s current queen looks back to move forward.
• Triple locked
  Avant-rock all-stars form a power trio for the ages.
• Cloud Salutation
  Rock’s eternal adolescent contemplates mortality, cheerfully.
• The lost boys
  Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.
• It’s showtime!
  Dormant old soul recordings dusted off for their 60th anniversary on double vinyl and extended 2-CD.
• Red note
  An obsessive fan rummages behind the Iron Curtain to show us how the East was jazzed.
• The songs that saved your life
  A forensic exploration of a singular Welsh group, via their songs
• Stellar street
  Access-all-areas biographer behind 2012’s Bruce narrows his focus to Springsteen’s mythmaking 1975 LP.
• Ringing Down The Years
  Strawbs lodestar and constant Dave Cousins left us on July 13.
• Uptown, Top Manc’ing
  The rarest records and artefacts from the planet’s best collections: this month, an unseen Smiths sleeve, a mystery Floyd album and a Blue Meanie suit.
• Van Morrison
  Feeling hassled by The Man? Andrew Male smooths the path.
• Voice Of The Beehive
  This month’s forgotten classic: a fated ’80s collaboration that vaulted over the wall of sound.
• Motivational Speakers
  Win! A Marshall Middleton II portable speaker.
• Stewart Copeland and The Police
  It began riding the punk wave. It ended in a very loud hellscape.