by kschwarz | Jun 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE A farewell to London Billie Holiday’s last official London gig was on 14th February, 1954 at the Flamingo Club. Fred Dellar remembers a magical evening. Words by Andrew Perry Billie Holiday records her penultimate album ‘Lady in Satin’ at the...
by kschwarz | Jun 5, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Perfect Example The key band in hardcore punk’s mutation into alternative rock, Hüsker Dü lit a fire in all-comers before drugs, jealousy and major labels joined to topple them. It’s a final, unbearable irony that a revelatory release of their exciting...
by akindell | Jun 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mojo FEATURE Rock And Roll Heart Street hustler, heartbreaker – Johnny Thunders remains an icon wherever rock’n’roll is revered, but he was never a bigger star than he was in London, for 18 months at the acme of punk. In 2017, friends and bandmates sifted the man and...
by akindell | Jun 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mojo FEATURE The 40 Years War Over four decades, The Fall’s autocrat-for-life Mark E Smith opened art-rock fissures in reality, passed merciless judgment on his enemies and led his legendary group to the edge of destruction, repeatedly. In 2016 MOJO interviewed a...
by akindell | May 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Q BEST OF... Her Majesty Ted Kessler is granted an audience in Laurel Canyon to hear how the 2010s belonged to America’s finest modern singer-songwriter. You’ll need to order an Uber to get there as there’s no parking, so press that button at 3.30 and head out into...
by akindell | May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mojo The List Rock’s most legendary stars reveal the 60 greatest Bob Dylan songs of all time To celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday, a galaxy of stars choose their favourite ever Dylan tracks. Picking a favourite Bob Dylan song is in many ways an impossible task....
by mojo | May 24, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo The List Rock’s most legendary stars reveal the 60 greatest Bob Dylan songs of all time To celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday, a galaxy of stars choose their favourite ever Dylan tracks. Picking a favourite Bob Dylan song is in many ways an impossible task....
by mojo | May 2, 2024 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo FEATURE “I’m a musician, I’m not a war hero. It’s nothing to get big-headed about” He cut his teeth in honky tonks, usurped Elvis and inspired The Beatles. Following the sad passing of Duane Eddy aged 86, MOJO revisits our 2010 interview with The King Of Twang....
by kschwarz | May 2, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Into The Black Out of the early-’80s post-punk scene burst The The’s Matt Johnson – crown prince of chartbound angst – and his blazingly intense poly-pop manifesto, Soul Mining. In this article from 2014, he relived the passion, the pain, and that piano...
by kschwarz | May 1, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Interstellar Overdrive 1974 was the year George Clinton’s P-Funk philosophy went overground, taking the psychedelic black rock of Funkadelic and the horn-heavy dance grooves of Parliament into the charts, onto the stage, into the Whitehouse, up to outer...
