Issue Issue 270 - MOJO (2024)

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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.

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IN THIS ISSUETHIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDEDavid Fricke At the Newport Jazz Festival 2015, David helmed a panel titled Miles Davis And The Electric Guitar. This month, as Don Cheadle’s Miles biopic hits the big screen, esteemed NYC critic Fricke loses himself in the trumpeter’s most confrontational album, On The Corner. Turn to p60. Gered Mankowitz Gered Mankowitz first photographed The Rolling Stones in 1965, aged 18, and toured with them at the beginning of their rise to stardom. His Snap Galleries exhibition opens this month and Backstage, a limited edition book is published in June. More details at: https://www.snapgalleries.com/exhibitions/off-the-hook/ Michelle Henning Michelle has worked with P.J. Harvey since 2009, designing merchandise, then album covers (Let England Shake, 2011), and now art directing on the Hope Six Demolition Project. She illustrates our lead album review (p84).…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETHIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDEDavid FrickeAt the Newport Jazz Festival 2015, David helmed a panel titled Miles Davis And The Electric Guitar. This month, as Don Cheadle’s Miles biopic hits the big screen, esteemed NYC critic Fricke loses himself in the trumpeter’s most confrontational album, On The Corner. Turn to p60.Gered MankowitzGered Mankowitz first photographed The Rolling Stones in 1965, aged 18, and toured with them at the beginning of their rise to stardom. His Snap Galleries exhibition opens this month and Backstage, a limited edition book is published in June. More details at: https://www.snapgalleries.com/exhibitions/off-the-hook/Michelle HenningMichelle has worked with P.J. Harvey since 2009, designing merchandise, then album covers (Let England Shake, 2011), and now art directing on the Hope Six Demolition Project. She illustrates our lead album review (p84). As well as drawing, she…1 min

IN THIS ISSUEPAINT IT BLACKWhen The Rolling Stones released Paint It, Black as a single in May 1966 in the wake of their fourth British studio album, Aftermath , they confirmed a darkening of the mood in ’60s pop music. Literary, lyrical nihilism was matched with musical textures that were equally brooding and ambitious, continuing the transformation of music from entertainment into social commentary. The Stones were not alone in their restlessness. Stateside standard-bearers such as The Doors were already fine-tuning the approach that would grace their incendiary first album a year later, while cities like San Francisco, Detroit and Austin would birth further creativity and unrest. In the UK, meanwhile, the psychedelic undercurrents would ultimately lead to a period of increasing musical heaviness. This 15-track collection reflects that fecund period from ’66 onwards.…7 min

IN THIS ISSUEFREAK OUT!THE DOORS CLASSIC ALBUMS Ex-band members of The Doors discuss their self-tided debut album, musing on the lyrical genius of Jim Morrison. CREAM DISRAELI BEARS: CLASSIC ALBUMS Supergroup alert! Cream's Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce on the making of their timeless 1967 album. PLUS! GRAHAM NASH TALKS MUSIC The legendary singersongwriter reflects on his career in the company of Malcolm Gerrie. See page 48 fora full Nash interview.…1 min

REGULARSALL BACK TO MY PLACESISTER SLEDGETHEY ARE FAMILYWhat music are you currently grooving to? Kim Sledge (right): James Brown. Also Marvin Sapp, a gospel singer. Joni Sledge (centre): Everything – ’70s disco to Tchaikovsky to Seal. Debbie Sledge (left): My daughter Camille Sledge, she leads a really impressive Afrobeat band called the Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra.What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? DS: We’re all Stevie Wonder fanatics, so it has got to be Songs In The Key Of Life. It captures the spirit of the man and the spirit of life itself; it has the ability to heal and his singing brings light, clarity, precision.What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?KS: There was a record store in downtown Philadelphia where all the cool…5 min

Issue Issue 270 - MOJO (2024)

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