by mojo | Aug 5, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo REMEMBERS “He didn’t see himself as the guy who missed out…” Although best remembered for turning down the offer of fronting Led Zeppelin, Terry Reid was a vocalist of rare talent, heralded by none other than Aretha Franklin among others. MOJO pays tribute to the...
by mojo | Jul 31, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE MEANNESS IN THIS WORLD NEBRASKA was a lo-fi fever dream populated by conflicted cops and serial killers, the lost and the lonely. The desperate characters haunting its grooves came amid a dramatic evolution in Springsteen’s writing style and his view of...
by mojo | Jul 31, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE SONG OF THE MAGICIAN Fifty years since his tragic overdose, Tim Buckley remains the patron saint of musicians who risk everything to unlock transcendence, a quest encapsulated in his audacious mid-career masterpiece, Starsailor. Turning his back on fame...
by mojo | Jul 28, 2025 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo FEATURE The Proposition It’s been an odyssey from the heroin addiction and on-stage violence of The Birthday Party to life as a nine-to-five songwriter with The a Seeds. In 2004, with his roll-ups, cups of tea, family life, a film in production and one of the...
by mojo | Jul 25, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo REMEMBERING OZZY Inside Ozzy Osbourne’s First-Ever Solo Gig On September 12, 1980, at Glasgow’s Apollo, Ozzy Osbourne played his first official solo show after being kicked out of Black Sabbath. MOJO’s James McNair was down the front to witness the Second Coming...
by Alice Whitehead | Jul 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mojo The List Every Black Sabbath Album Ranked In tribute to their late frontman Ozzy Osbourne, MOJO ranks and rates every album from heavy metal godfathers Black Sabbath. Words by Phil Alexander/James McNair No band sounded the death knell of hippy-dom as gloriously...
by mojo | Jul 15, 2025 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo ROCK'N'ROLL CONFIDENTIAL John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival’s lynchpin, John Fogerty, talks swamp rock, brotherhood and defeating the evil guy Words: Martin Aston Dig the new Creed: John Fogerty returns to his Legacy with renewed energy. JOHN FOGERTY...
by mojo | Jul 15, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Reintroducing The Band Twice derailed by egomania, hard drugs, and Britpop, Suede sashay on – wiser, sturdier and, they assert, more creative than ever. An upcoming new album – Antidepressants – revives formative influences (Magazine, The Cult, Crass) and...
by mojo | Jul 15, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Let Me Have It All The passing of Sly Stone in June shone a light on a genre-mashing genius whose peak, multi-hued music preached unity and transcendence. Stone’s world darkened as drugs took over and The Family Stone fell apart, but the fruits of a...
by mojo | Jun 27, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE ENCHANTED Mourning the loss of Christine McVie and at loggerheads with Lindsey Buckingham, in June 2024 MOJO encountered Stevie Nicks soldiering on alone, a looming headline show at Hyde Park a testament to the power of her personality – and extraordinary...
