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...
by mojo | Aug 12, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Rebel Music Fifty years ago, WILLIE NELSON up-ended the tyranny of the Nashville Sound with a record like nothing before or, perhaps, since. The road to Red Headed Stranger was long and uphill: strewn with broken marriages, record label wrangles and acts of God, but...
by mojo | Aug 11, 2025 | MOJO Presents
But Not For Me MIKE TAYLOR was the most original voice in British jazz, a legend on the scene, an inspiration to Cream and the coming wave of prog. But his recordings are rare, his career curtailed by mental illness and a mysterious early death. New reissues of key...
