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…

DEAD ROOTS THE GRATEFUL DEAD SONGBOOK

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

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Theories, rants, etc.

When Life Gives You Lemonheads • Almost 20 years after his last all-new album, Evan Dando is back. Plus, cool riffs, memoirs, and Oasis.

MAGIC MOMENTS: A SIX-DISC BOX SET OF DOC POMUS DEMOS IS COMING

GIMME FIVE… ‘WILL NEVER DIE’ SONGS

JUSTIN HAYWARD • The Moody Blues singer talks his old band, cover versions and Clifford T. Ward.

Anton Newcombe • The Brian Jonestown Massacre's leader screams for PiL's Second Edition (Virgin, 1980).

AFTER 66 YEARS ROCKING… THE SEARCHERS CALL IT QUITS AT GLASTONBURY

POST-HARDCORE MAVERICKS SHUDDER TO THINK RE-IGNITE

DIG YOUR OWN HOLE – IT'S CANADA'S SAMPLADELIC FOLKIES, FOXWARREN!

MEET ABEL SELAOCOE, BRINGING TOWNSHIP SPIRIT TO BACH AND JAZZ

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Keeping The Stranglers afloat, defying punks and prudes, despite losing “bitter” Hugh, “genius” Dave and a year on heroin, has taught Jean-Jacques Burnel a thing or two about rock'n'roll: “It's not dyeing your hair with Just For Men.”

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • U2’s Adam Clayton on a low-end legend.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Highway to Burnel: JJ down the years.

BLACK GOLD • Burnel’s best, by James McNair.

song of the magician • Fifty years since his tragic overdose, tim buckley remains the patron saint of musicians who risk everything to unlock transcendence, a quest encapsulated in his audacious mid-career masterpiece, Starsailor. Turning his back on fame and fortune, leaning into the unknown, was where he was lost but also found. “It was like he came into possession of his muse,” discovers grayson haver currin.

hallucinations • tim buckley: the studio albums, by grayson haver currin.

“i made a horrible mistake” • richard keeling gave Tim Buckley heroin the night he died, but doesn't believe it killed him. “One thing I understood at that time was drugs,” he tells grayson haver currin.

THE MAGICAL WORLD OF THE ROCHES • Harmonising New Jersey siblings with a punk name, The Roches had been signed up by Paul Simon but wouldn’t co-operate. Then Robert Fripp saw them in 1978 and was blown away. A major-label deal and critical adoration promised the big time, but attempts to smooth off their edges and unwise support slots meant a breakthrough was not to be. “Nothing superfluous had to be added to The Roches, because they are The Roches,” they reflect. “I can’t believe we did what we did.”

THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE YOU ANY MORE • THIRTY YEARS SINCE HIS DEATH IN JUNE 1995, THE CULT OF RORY GALLAGHER THRIVES, IN THE MUSIC OF HIS FANS AND THE STORIES OF HIS BANDMATES. A CREATIVE DYNAMO BLENDING BLUES, ROCK, FOLK AND MORE. A “BEAUTIFUL MAN” WHO WAS ALSO A “DICTATOR”. A DOOMED LONER WHO WOULD RIP UP AN ALBUM RATHER THAN COMPROMISE HIS ART. “HE WOULDN’T SACRIFICE ANYTHING FOR THE PURITY OF THE MUSIC.”

“IT WAS HIS...