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...
by mojo | Sep 22, 2025 | MOJO Presents
The Queen Of Hooks Fleetwood Mac’s not-so-secret weapon held the group together through breakups and freakouts, ruptures and reinventions, blizzards of drugs and booze, until even she could take no more. But without her voice, her songs, and her sanity, they were only...
by mojo | Sep 23, 2025 | MOJO Presents
There’s No Other Fusing art and punk and classic pop in their Lower East Side crucible, Blondie became a poster on the world’s bedroom wall, uniquely iconic. But as their revelatory 2022 box set revealed, they were a band for all seasons, with strengths their fame...
by mojo | Sep 16, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents Shadow Of The Moon As The Who hit the road, perhaps for the last time, after another drummer-oriented crisis, they reboot Who Are You – Keith Moon’s arduous yet fascinating swan song. With punks at the gate, scraps in the studio and...
by mojo | Sep 12, 2025 | MOJO Presents
After the Gold Rush Created by fate, destined to crash’n’burn, Young’s first major band was a collection of “geniuses” who mixed up country, rock and pop – and launched two its members skywards. Words: SYLVIE SIMMONS RELEASED: September 19, 1970 / LABEL: Reprise /...
by mojo | Sep 3, 2025 | MOJO Presents
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD Created by fate, destined to crash’n’burn, Young’s first major band was a collection of “geniuses” who mixed up country, rock and pop – and launched two its members skywards. Words: VICTORIA SEGAL RELEASED: December 5, 1966 / LABEL: ATCO / CHART:...
by mojo | Sep 2, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE A Right Pair Two halves of one brain, John Lennon and Paul McCartney formed the most extraordinary and intimate musical partnership of the rock era. In this extract from a new book that probes their bond through the medium of their songs, Ian Leslie...
by mojo | Aug 25, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE The Pogues unleash Rum Sodomy & the Lash Out of the saloon bars of early-’80s north London came an unholy union of Irish rebel music and punk, fronted by hard-drinking poet-bard Shane MacGowan. In 1985, The Pogues recorded their masterpiece of...
