by mojo | Oct 28, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents The Tao Of Zappa MOJO goes beyond the toilet gags to immerse in the confounding life and work of Frank Zappa, and explore how a bitter contempt for conformity begat such wild creations – even, at times, beauty. “his music was eclectic,” bandmates and...
by mojo | Oct 28, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Shaman’s Blues By the dawn of 1969, The Doors were one of the hottest bands on the planet – making headlines, packing shows – yet the pressures of work and fame were already impacting on their music. Then, on-stage in Miami, Jim Morrison took something...
by kschwarz | Oct 23, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Soft Cell’s Dave Ball: “Being in the charts was never the plan. We were electro punks…” Remembering Soft Cell co-founder Dave Ball, who has passed away aged 66. MOJO revisits a classic interview with the electronic music pioneer. Dave Ball, co-founder of Soft Cell and...
by kschwarz | Oct 22, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Jimmy Page: I wanted Led Zeppelin II To Be Extreme On the anniversary of their second album’s release, Jimmy Page looks back at Led Zeppelin’s rise from Brit blues wonderkids to globe conquering rock titans. Slammed by the press, loved by the fans, Led Zeppelin became...
by mojo | Oct 17, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents ELTON JOHN CRACKS IT ON GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD In a creative dip, chased from his studio in Kingston JA, Elton John started 1973 on the run. By its end he had his most iconic album in the bag – not one but two discs of revitalised rockers and timeless...
by mojo | Oct 17, 2025 | MOJO Presents
How Kiss got their second shot After the sad passing of Ace Frehley, Kiss’ original guitarist, we remember the band’s triumphant 1996 return aboard a WWII aircraft carrier 16 April, 1996 The USS Intrepid had seen it all. Known as The Fighting I, the...
by mojo | Oct 14, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents Heaven And Hell The Woodstock Festival has always been touted as the crystallising moment of the rock counterculture – an Eden with mud and acid and granola that gave its name to an era and a generation. But was it the event we think we remember? Was the...
by mojo | Oct 9, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Dire Straits Straight out of Deptford via Newcastle, Mark Knopfler’s journeymen avatars of gimlet-eyed rootsy rock had been successful on their own terms since 1978. Then in 1985, as the coming CD age, a computer-animated MTV hit and the most immediate...
by mojo | Oct 1, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Simple Minds on psychedelic experiences, redneck run-ins and reconstructing a classic Forty years ago, a band of Glaswegian art-rock misfits located the formula for a spectacular transformation. From base metals, Simple Minds alchemised New Gold Dream...
by mojo | Sep 23, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Jim Keltner The Master Drummer to Dylan, Lennon, Neil, Lana Del Rey and dozens more has come through overdoses and epiphanies to be the heartbeat of the greatest rock and pop. His secret? “It’s allowing the music to blossom,” says Jim Keltner. Interview...
