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 GOLD RUSH NEIL YOUNG COVERED • EMMYLOU HARRIS, SAINT ETIENNE, THE METERS, THE FEELIES, CHARLES BRADLEY, LEE RANALDO, TINDERSTICKS, BILL FRISELL, TY SEGALL, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, LOW/DIRTY THREE AND MORE

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

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Goodbye, Dolly • East Tennessee's Queen Of Country Dolly Parton left us on August 25.

PARTON GIFTS • Five of Dolly's best long-players.

STEVE EARLE, MARGO PRICE AND MORE PLAY JOHN PRINE’S EIGHTIETH

GIMME FIVE… MEDICAL RECORDS

KRIKEY! KLASSIC KINKS KATALOGUE REVEALS TWO UNHEARD SONGS

MADNESS BIOPIC TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT GETS A POLISH. AND - WILL CHAS RETURN?

Martha Reeves • The voice of The Vandellas talks amour, Motown and Mick Jagger’s luscious lips.

Susanna Hoffs • The Bangles singer still loves The Beatles’ Revolver (Apple, 1966).

BRITPOP IDOLS ELASTICA EXPAND THEIR DEBUT – BUT WILL THEY RE-FORM?

TRIP INTO THE “WEIRD INTROSPECTIVE ESCAPISM” OF THE TARA CLERKIN TRIO

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up! For mighty riffs, solid grooves and acid eulogies.

CITY POP GUITAR ACE MASAYOSHI TAKANAKA GROOVES ON

UB40’s singing sibling rejected folk and ska, sold dub to the “housewives demographic”, then watched his band implode, toxically. Still touring, still boosting for reggae, he watches his brother’s moves from afar. “We’re at war,” says Ali Campbell.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Brummie reggae star Bitty McLean pays tribute.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Dole power: UB40’s Ali down the years.

ALI: THE GREATEST • Three Campbell coups.

CALL ME THE BREEZE • Laconic, reclusive, sensitive, J.J. CALE preferred life in the shadows - despite the queue of big names forever paying court. Now a TV drama series is bringing his music - uniquely laid-back, cool but also deceptive - back into the light, and bandmates join MOJO in hymning his hidden depths. “He was kind of a mystic,” they tell ANDREW MALE.

“HE ALWAYS CHOSE ARTISTIC INTEGRITY” • The Native American director, producer and screenwriterSTERLIN HARJOon how the music of J.J. Cale influenced his smash-hit Tulsa-set crime drama, The Lowdown.

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER • And yet, though their partnership’s battered, their new album delayed, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN endure, driven on by their irrepressible, exasperating frontman. Tracked down in Liverpool, Ian McCulloch opens up on bust-ups with Will, peace talks with Bono, and — at long last — that album. “Just by listening to it, you become cooler,” he promises TOM DOYLE.

“ARE WE GOTH? I DON’T REMEMBER MANY SONGS ABOUT BATS” • WILL SERGEANT on Echo & The Bunnymen, their audience and their chemistry. Questioner: TOM DOYLE.

GIL SCOTTHERON STARTS THE REVOLUTION • How a radical poet, his brilliant young musical foil and the cream of jazz and soul sessioneers created a masterpiece. “We wanted a better world,” says Gil Scott-Heron’s right-hand man, Brian Jackson. “Pieces Of A Man was a...