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...
